South Fore Case Study Answers
1. When a female relative died the women of South Fore, New Guinea, would eat the deceased’s brain and body parts as they mourned.
2. The males of South Fore thought eating small mammals, frogs, and insects, would weaken their vigor and health. Men also had the right to the pigs the women raised, so the males had higher-quality meat to eat. The cannibalism was another source of protein for the women of South Fore.
3. To the females of South Fore, eating their dead female kin was a mourning ritual.
4. Eating the brain of the deceased caused kuru, which affected the central nervous system. It killed within six months to two years. During 1957 to 1968 about 1,000 people died in South Fore from kuru. Since females grew crops, cared for children, …show more content…
Indigenous people of the artic and anarchic areas are already being affected. Although, the artic and anarchic environments are harsh, they have very fragile ecosystems. The native peoples have adapted a lifestyle relaying on weather and the migratory cycles of animals through generations of knowledge. The warmer weather is melting ice, so they cannot travel across it as easily. The lack of ice bergs has made hunting seals harder. The rising sea levels from the melting ice caps produces stronger waves which erodes the coastal areas. The sea can also rise and cause fresh water ponds to empty into the oceans taking the fresh water marine live with it. Since the indigenous people mainly relay on hunting, they are worried about global warming impacts on food chains. Climate change is making the environment for lemmings, which are animals lower on the food chain, more difficult to survive. This affects animals higher on the food chain that depends on the lemmings as a food source. The same issues applies to polar bears that eat seals. Permafrost is melting causing mudslides on once solid, frozen earth. The locals often come together to form focus groups to discussed the current issues and gather information from another. There was even a conference by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2008 on “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change” to make policies to help future crises. I personally think
2. The males of South Fore thought eating small mammals, frogs, and insects, would weaken their vigor and health. Men also had the right to the pigs the women raised, so the males had higher-quality meat to eat. The cannibalism was another source of protein for the women of South Fore.
3. To the females of South Fore, eating their dead female kin was a mourning ritual.
4. Eating the brain of the deceased caused kuru, which affected the central nervous system. It killed within six months to two years. During 1957 to 1968 about 1,000 people died in South Fore from kuru. Since females grew crops, cared for children, …show more content…
Indigenous people of the artic and anarchic areas are already being affected. Although, the artic and anarchic environments are harsh, they have very fragile ecosystems. The native peoples have adapted a lifestyle relaying on weather and the migratory cycles of animals through generations of knowledge. The warmer weather is melting ice, so they cannot travel across it as easily. The lack of ice bergs has made hunting seals harder. The rising sea levels from the melting ice caps produces stronger waves which erodes the coastal areas. The sea can also rise and cause fresh water ponds to empty into the oceans taking the fresh water marine live with it. Since the indigenous people mainly relay on hunting, they are worried about global warming impacts on food chains. Climate change is making the environment for lemmings, which are animals lower on the food chain, more difficult to survive. This affects animals higher on the food chain that depends on the lemmings as a food source. The same issues applies to polar bears that eat seals. Permafrost is melting causing mudslides on once solid, frozen earth. The locals often come together to form focus groups to discussed the current issues and gather information from another. There was even a conference by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2008 on “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change” to make policies to help future crises. I personally think