tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808406058173173703.post4983345374922521070..comments2023-06-28T05:54:47.372-04:00Comments on Music 000001: 248. The Baseline Scenarios -- 24: Hunter-GatherersDocGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808406058173173703.post-75119949887710918612009-12-02T20:16:55.903-05:002009-12-02T20:16:55.903-05:00The parts on religion and rituals (or lack of them...The parts on religion and rituals (or lack of them in fact) are most telling. God is the Sun, optional dancing with the ancestors and leaving the dead to the hyenas and vultures (until recently) without ceremony. <br /><br />Present oriented. <br /><br />I laughed pretty much with this subjective urbanite comment:<br /><br /><i>But I could never live like the Hadza. Their entire life, it appears to me, is one insanely committed camping trip. It's incredibly risky. Medical help is far away. One bad fall from a tree, one bite from a black mamba snake, one lunge from a lion, and you're dead. Women give birth in the bush, squatting. About a fifth of all babies die within their first year, and nearly half of all children do not make it to age 15. They have to cope with extreme heat and frequent thirst and swarming tsetse flies and malaria-laced mosquitoes</i>. <br /><br />But they are aware that there is no future for them in civilization either, so they'd like, it seems, to keep their lifestyle forever - logically.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808406058173173703.post-77947867352326117672009-12-02T19:51:29.179-05:002009-12-02T19:51:29.179-05:00Very interesting reading the NG article:
Loose ma...Very interesting reading the NG article:<br /><br />Loose marriage and communal paternity:<br /><br /><i>There are no wedding ceremonies. A couple that sleeps at the same fire for a while may eventually refer to themselves as married. Most of the Hadza I met, men and women alike, were serial monogamists, changing spouses every few years</i> (...) <i>Except for breast-feeding infants, it was hard to determine which kids belonged to which parents</i>. <br /><br />Gender "egalitarianism in difference":<br /><br /><i>Gender roles are distinct, but for women there is none of the forced subservience knit into many other cultures. A significant number of Hadza women who marry out of the group soon return, unwilling to accept bullying treatment</i>. <br /><br />20 interactive "bands" in a small area:<br /><br /><i>Onwas knows of about 20 Hadza groups roaming the bush in his area, constantly swapping members, like a giant square dance</i>.<br /><br />I could only find the area for the whole region of Arusha: 33,800 Km2, roughly the size of South Carolina, however the Hadza only inhabit a small area within this region, that nevertheless feeds 20 bands (of less than 30 people). It seems to me a rather high density for a hunter-gatherer nation. <br /><br />I read at Wikipedia that the Hadza number just 1000 but only 300-400 are still true foragers. <br /><br />Domed huts:<br /><br /><i>During the rainy season, they construct little domed shelters made of interwoven twigs and long grasses: basically, upside-down bird's nests. To build one takes no more than an hour</i>.<br /><br />I'm still reading...Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com