My Anthro Blog

I believe the cave artists were trying to create a story with their paintings, or they were trying to portray the things they saw outside of the caves. Perhaps they created those paintings to preserve a memory as well, but I feel like, for any reason anyone could think of, the reasons for these paintings could be a mixture of various purposes. Throughout the cave interaction, we saw more cows and horses and, I believe, only one human with a bird. The reason there may be more animals than people could be due to the reasoning that there weren't many people around them, and that those animals were more commonly seen because it was their source for survival. In a way, these paintings could show the lives of the cave dwellers/Paleolithic people. Like I mentioned, the paintings could represent memories that they wanted to capture or remember because it was a part of their history. For example, the last painting we see with the human could show the death of that person from an animal, or ...

While killing can be an act of revenge in Yanomamo culture and Western culture, in the Yanomamo culture, killing is a normal part of their community. Once someone from the village is dead, an act of revenge occurs through raids and will continue constantly until someone stops or possibly till everyone is dead. In contrast within Western culture, people who kill are sent to prison for a certain amount of time if found guilty. The process of killing within the Yanomamo population starts off with a death from their village. Once rage inflicts within the tribe, a raid party is created with about 10-20 men involved with the goal to kill the main offender. Some raids may not due to the distance of the village that was planned to be raided, other people may drop out of the raid, but will be given a reputation of a coward, putting themself in a position of being weak and for their wife to be the target for sexual attention. If a raid happens and goes as planned, the raiders are known as unokai...

This was a very interesting experiment. My partner and I both felt uncomfortable, but we also felt the difficulty of doing these tasks. At the beginning, when my partner started, she explained to me how it felt like she was talking to a wall or talking to her own reflection, like she was giving herself a pep talk. She tried her best to talk for 15 minutes, but in the end, she couldn't do it. She explained it to me as, "the more I kept talking, the more awkward it felt". Even though she was free to say anything, move anything, or do anything she wanted, it was too uncomfortable for her to keep going. Before my partner and I began the experiment, I had a feeling the person who would feel more "in power" would be the person speaking, but after the experiment, the person who wasn't speaking had more power. The reason why I said the one who didn't speak had more power was because the speaker started to feel discomfort the more the non-speaker didn't say o...