The forests also constitute the home of the indigenous peoples, the Maisin. For the Maisin, forests provide everything from food and medicinal plants, to materials for houses, canoes and tools. Under the Papua New Guinea constitution, the Maisin are the legal owners of their traditional lands. But these forests and forest peoples are under threat due to large-scale logging activities and oil palm plantations. Oil palm plantations are not aimed at the production of edible oil for the local population and almost the entire production is export-oriented.
Anthropology of Yanomami By: Rana Elahmad The Yanomami are a large population of indigenous Amerindian people in South America. They reside in the Amazon rainforest, among the hills that line the border between Brazil and Venezuela. Due to the remoteness of their residence, they had remained largely uncontacted by the outside world until the beginning of the 20th century. This allowed them to retain several aspects of their traditional culture and have been a subject of study by modern researchers. The word Yanomami means "human being" in their language.
The European presence exists in Popol Vuh as the last effort to preserve the oral tradition, which explains their culture and way of life, and the texts that had been previously destroyed. According to Lifshey, translation was an issue because all of its modern written versions were based on a sole surviving manuscript, a copy made at the start of the eighteenth century. It was difficult to interpret a text that was several centuries old, written in a language with few surviving documents of that period to reference back to for particular words. It took great European effort and years of collecting to publish the collection of ancient Mayan oral traditions, but the European presence is also seen in the style that the book is written. Popol Vuh is written in a Pre-Columbia style, which emphasizes the untouched culture of the Native Mayans.
Running Head: Bolivia and Puerto Rico Cultural Simularities and Differences of Bolivia and Puerto Rico At first glance the nations of Puerto Rico and Bolivia appear to have nothing in common. While Bolivia is a landlocked nation in South America, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated archipelago territory of the United States. Both nations, however, are resting on multicultural platforms. Although both list Spanish as their predominant language, Puerto Rico lists English as a co-official language and Bolivia has 37 official languages including Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, and an array of native languages. Both countries, after centuries of immigration and emigration, have populations where only about 50% (52.6% in Puerto Rico and 55% in Bolivia) of people are of Amerindian heritage.
In class we watched a documentary called Warriors of the Amazon. It was filmed by NOVA, in which I think did an excellent job on portraying the way of life of the Yano Mami. The Yano Mami is an ancient isolated tribe that is on the brink of extinction. NOVA identified the origin of the tribe, which is from the territory between Brazil and Venezuela. In the documentary it shows the living habits, lifestyle and how they interacted with each other and how the group are extremely aggressive to outsiders.
• The largest flower on Earth comes from a tropical forest - the Rafflesia grows up to 1 metre across. • About 2,000 trees per minute are cut down in the rainforests. • At least 11 million hectares (110,000 square kilometres) of tropical forest are lost each year, approximately 20 hectares (50 acres) per minute. • Every second, a slice of rainforest approximately the size of an American football field (1 acre) is mowed down. That is 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or around 30 million football fields of rainforest each year.
The Batek of Malaysia ANT 101 1/7/13 The Batek of Malaysia The Batik is an indigenous tribes living in the rainforest of the peninsula of Malaysia. They live in camps composed of five to six nuclear families. They are mostly foragers although the occasionally practice horticulture. To survive the tribes relies on hunting, gathering and trading rattan or forest products. Malaysia is on the south Malay Peninsula and stretches from the Thai border down to the island of Singapore.
The Batek of Malaysia Donna Berg Instructor Michelle Dorne ANT 101: Cultural Anthropology April 16, 2012 Try and imagine life without electricity, plumbing, heating and air, or on a broader scale, without vehicles, grocery stores, fast food, and/or the unimaginable, cell phones! For many, life would cease to exist absent one or more of these so-called necessities. Yet, a simpler and peaceful life has, does, and can exist without these luxuries. In the tropical rainforests of the northeastern niche of Peninsular Malaysia and among the last of the mobile hunter/gatherer societies, reside the Batek. The Batek of Malaysia are a foraging society with a total population of 800 – 900 which is spread over three states, Pahang, Kelantan, and Terengganu.
Kundera compares the struggle of people inevitably forgetting their memories to the struggle of people against power. The theme of people against power is very prominent in Pilger’s first chapter of Freedom Next Time, titled “Stealing a Nation.” That is exactly what happened in the case of Diego Garcia, a tropical oasis, free of extreme weather, that lies in between Africa and Asia. Found in a series of islands called the Chagos archipelago, Diego Garcia was home to an estimated two thousand people. John Pilger takes a look at the freedom that was taken away from these people, the peaceful home that was destroyed, and the human beings who were treated as animals in this heart wrenching first chapter of Freedom Next Time. Diego Garcia was home to a gentle, Creole nation, whose ancestry went back to the eighteenth century when the French brought slaves over from Mozambique and Madagascar in order to work on a coconut plantation.
It is a moist broadleaf that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. B. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. C. Amazon rainforest is getting smaller and smaller due to anthropic factors and nonhuman factors. IV.