Like most foraging groups the Mbuti are mobile. The Mbuti move around mainly to allow an area to regenerate its resources. They make simple huts made with branches and leaves. This allows them to travel lightly and build in a day when they reach somewhere new. They don’t carry or have many of possessions because it is impractical when you live in one locale.
In the Josh Groban example the foundation doesn’t have its own website. It has a small section with brief updates and press releases. It is clean, professional and minimal. Opportunity of experiment rejecting unfair splits. People derive pleasure from punishing wrongdoing, but doesn’t happen against computers.
Our society does not hold high standards when it comes to working together as a team like the San culture does. (Nowak & Laird 2010) states “Perhaps a large number of us should step back and take a lesson on how to survive instead of how to keep up with the Jones”. In our society, we are more concerned about ourselves and take our resources for granted. We do depend on one another for certain things but we do not rely on family members or relatives to provide like the San’s do. The San people like the simple life and are not greedy like Americans can be.
However, this does not mean we do not need to face any competition throughout our life. Everyone in the society or within their community needs to face the competition with their peers. On the other word, people are competing with each other in the society. But how does this related to the leisure class? In the primitive stage of civilisation, there is no doubt that the efficiency and productivity (on the other word “Technology”) were not as advanced as today.
Native Americans were mainly sedentary and did not relocate often, they also hunted rather than domesticated. They had to hunt for their meat, so they were often exposed to the dangers and difficulties of hunting. This generated a certain amount of respect for wildlife and nature. Native Americans also had to cultivate land by hand due to the lack of large livestock. Since this process was time consuming, there was not much specialization of labor.
Looking at this from a Western society it is not what one would imagine in today’s society that is filled with technology. Their way of life is very simple and not complicated at all. They reside in small mobile groups that are self-sufficient. The foraging groups live within a defined territory and exist in what is called subsistence economy. A subsistence economy is when the group only produces what is needed in order to survive.
People do not generally post things that are important. People post what they had for lunch, what their kids wore to school, or how bad their commute was. None of these things matter. None of these things are important or personal. Facebook or online media is an easy way to stay in touch, or to see what’s going on but a poor substitute for actual conversations.
I also found it interesting to learn how the lifestyles influence different beliefs like the number system. For the Pirahã and Mundurukú, there was no need for a complex number system because they did not need to use
This need for things that reflect on self-esteem, personal worth, social recognition and accomplishment from the environment. “Adults have little awareness of their security needs in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting)” (Janet A. Simons, Donald B. Irwin & Beverly A. Drinnien). I haven’t met all the needs in this level I do not have a job at the moment so therefore I don’t have health insurance, but I do have a home in a safe neighborhood which I’m comfortable with. Third level: Needs of Love, Affection and Belongingness. “Maslow considered these needs to be less basic than physiological and security needs.
For this reason, the population tribes were scattered and well distant from each other. In contrast, the Neolithic Man experienced geographic climates such as ones similar to farming, although the lands were mainly for dry land agriculture. In addition, there was little rainfall, but growing crops and farming was possible. Unlike the Paleolithic Man, there were no glaciers which allowed the Neolithic Man to be very well close to other tribes and closely settled. In continuation, technology was another factor for the differences in Paleolithic and Neolithic Man development.