Anthropology Chaps 4-12 Gebusi
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 kinship | related by descent |
| clan | basic social unit |
| exogamous | marry outside of clan |
| endogamous | typically marry from the same village |
| sister exchange | marry anyone from the same generation that is in your clan |
| leviratic | widows are expected to marry their deceased husbands brother |
| reciprocity | the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit |
| omaha system | gebusi system |
| wa kawala | path to masculinity |
| male initiation process/insemination | boys will not reach maturity without participating, boys will ingest semen from initiated man |
| right of passage | ceremony or ritual that marks the transition from one social status to another |
| liminal period | when in between status' |
| changes in 1998 for gebusi | -mode of production -market for food -market participation as consumers and producers -decline in reciprocity -communalism to individualism -western institutions -population growth -music and technology -time -shift from klan to household -no more seances -no more kogwayay -location change |
| years knauft went to new guinea | 1982 1998 2008 |
| mode of production | still foraging and horticulture but doing part of this for the market not just fro themselves |
| knauft changes in 1998 | -older -has children -has dependents -lots of dangers -not as open minded -university support -expert -new technology -different academic questioning -different study -different mind set altering his perspective |
| what is knauft looking at in 1998 | at change in modernization |
| selling at market | -sago -bamboo shoots -chestnuts -peanuts |
| buying at market | -used clothes -food tin fish and rice |
| prestige | things that are imported and have labels |
| population growth change in 1998 went from... | 450 to 650 |
| three different religions to choose from they are... | -seventh day adventist -catholicism -evangelical |
| deferred gratification | putting off what makes you happy while living then rewarded by going to heaven |
| cargo aka bip | material goods |
| catholicism | -has most conversions -known as soft -60% are catholic |
| animism goes to .... | monotheism |
| animism | belief in spirit world that reflexes real world |
| monothesim | one supreme god |
| enculturation | the gradual change of characteristics and norms of a culture |
| women in market | -91% of sellers are women -earn less than 20 cents a day -go two days a week -still gather to sell at market -money that women make at market is reserved for what men want to buy |
| irrational expenditure | giving more than they get |
| petty capitalism | save up money to but tin fish and rice to be given away at a feast, it makes you above others because you give more. |
| competitive feasting | -tin fish and rice are now everything people can obtain -transform capitalism to meet their needs |
| Pros of market participation | -greater access to cargo -some empowerment of women |
| Cons of market participation | -theft because of jealousy and over inequality -needless expenditure of energy -reciprocity is disappearing |
| plurlism | departure of kogwayay |
| school | -boys and girls can both go but more girls drop out -have teacher and taught within clan |
| sports | -boys dominant -rugby -soccer |
| adameni | -magic potion in terms of finding others attractive -basically is cologne |
| choice replacing traditional kinship obligations | -marriage -market -religion |
| traditional ways | -reduces courtship period -less focus on physical attraction -no financial obligation -less focus/emphasis on self presentation -maintains balance and equality |
| modern ways | -physical and emotional attraction -more female choice -happiness -different levels of sexual experience |
| compensation | -brides wealth -dowry |
| brides wealth | payment to brides kin |
| dowry | payment to grooms family or kin |
| hybridization | mixing/recombination of modern and traditional culture |
| what replaces initiation by the largest gathering? | independence day |
| plundering | take what you want and discard the rest |
| because people are active agents in modernization they can..... | pick and choose what they want |
| 2008 | shift back toward traditionalism |
| changes at nomad | -houses were boarded up -clothes plainly ragged -people still happy -sports gone -health clinic gone -school gone -police gone -government has died -peoples interest in cargo has declined -not concerned with material goods -population continues to grow -no longer producing for profit |
| gamani golom-da | government has dies |
| changes in gebusi 2008 | -new long houses -exchange names and sexual joking are back -no sorcery or spirit mediums -catholicism stayed -traditions fade but are not rediscovered -old traditions, new twist |
| tok pism | new gebusi language |
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