1 The Navajo ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (AVL1207D) Instructor: Amy VanSurksum 03/19/2012 2 Outline I. Kinship a. Marriage b. Age-Sets II. Social Organization III. Beliefs and Values c. Rituals and Religion IV. Conclusion 3 The people, who charm the rural area and live a nonintensive life, are the Navajo.
This is not as common as the patrilineal decent groups. The horticultural societies mostly come from the matrilineal groups. Matrilocal is a post marital residence pattern in which a newly married couple reside with the bride’s natal household” (Nowak and Laird, 2010). The fathers’ clan is also important. When asked, the Navajos would introduce themselves as the mother of the clan.
Rituals III. Social Organizations 1. Social Obligations 2. Witchcraft 3. Navajo Tribal Courts IV.
are inherited through women. They also have a strong preference for a matrilocal living arrangement where husbands would move in to live with their wives’ families (which would sometimes include the extended families as well). If you are a Navajo Indian kinship and social organizations flows into one. You will find kinship anywhere anytime depending on who you have married. Who you married is a big deal in the social organization part of this tribe.
Doing the Iroquois kinship I learned a lot about them that I didn’t know. When it comes to kinship the women in the Iroquois determine the kinship. When they get married the groom moves into the brides longhouse. The kids they have become part of her family or clan as they call it. Louis Morgan wrote a book called Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family.
With the traditions that the Amish have living in a rural area, using buggies and horses for transpiration and they do their own farming, marry in the same group. They dress the same way in the seventeenth century like the Europeans did. The Amish is also secure for the traditions that are from the outside world and their relationship with the neighbors is being judgmental. With the first migration in 1727 and 1790 there were about five hundred Amish that had settled in the Pennsylvania area. The next migration that took place was in 1815 and 1865 and about three thousand Amish immigrated to the Ohio area, New York, Indiana and then to Illinois.
He obviously was never close to her, due to his lack of wanting to visit her. He describes visiting her as a strenuous task. She is almost like a random person in his mind. The rest home director describes Meursault behavior the day of the funeral, “… I hadn’t wanted to see Maman, that I hadn’t cried once, and that left right after the funeral without paying my last respect at her grave”(89). A man who loved his mother would have cried a little bit at her funeral.
The Djiboutian family averages six or seven children. A marriage is considered a union of two families as well as two individuals. Divorce is an accepted and common part of the culture. Muslim men traditionally can marry as many as four women. Each wife raises her own children, and her household has a specific task, such as farming or tending livestock.
The Navajo Society The Navajo Society The Navajo People have led a pastoral lifestyle and existence in the Southwest United States with limited space on reservations and have been able to maintain a strong sense of their identity, social structure and culture along the way. In this paper I hope to explain how the Navajo culture has persevered throughout the many challenges and changes over the last three centuries. Although it is difficult for most outsiders to confine the social organization of the Navajo into a certain category, a definite system is present with most emphasis on motherhood. Understood as a conceptual or symbolic social system, “motherhood is found in life, reproduction, and subsistence”, (Witherspoon, 1970, p.55). The
The Navajo Daniell ANT101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Prof. Je The Navajo The Dineh or "The People" as the Navajo call themselves are a horticultural society that migrated to the Southwest between the fourteenth and fifteenth century. They relied on what little food that they could hunt or gather but because of the lack of water in the region, grew to largely depend on their herds of sheep as both a source of food and wealth in their society. The Navajo are made up of a matrilineal society, where the women took care of the family and the household, while the men go out to hunt. They are a very spiritual people that believe in the balance and harmony of one’s life, which is obtained through many religious rituals and