Essays on Canoes

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the traditional institution of trade and economics among the Trobriand Islanders. The primary focus is on the symbolic interpretation of the acts involved in the kula ring and in yam production, display and distribution. The first section of the paper explains the kula ring and how it operated in Trobriand society at the time of the first ethnographic description of the Trobrianders by Malinowski in 1914. The second section examines how social hierarchy is expressed in trade within the kula ring. The third section looks at the difference between symbolic gift ...

Today, the Anishinabe people form the second largest population in North America. The Anishinabe have one principle quality of unity that identifies them. The have myths that they believe to have originated from the Great Lakes. They had always known each other as Anishinabek. It was only after the French and the Europeans arrived that they were identified as tribes and identified with different names and different characteristics. They are composed of various tribes including Ojibway, Ottawa, Potawatomi and many others; they may be different, but they are related in many aspects such as their culture and the languages ...

The origin and the culture of blacksmiths in Kuku society date 1790 – 1960s. Kuku consisted of a large ethnic group of southerners in Sudan (Poggo 169). The cultural and the linguistic group were among the Eastern Nilotes. The Eastern Nilotic Group occupied the Kajo-Kaji territory. The territory was originally the home of the Moru – Madi Sudanic community. As Kuku crossed the River Nile, they absorbed some of the communities living in that territory at that period. The interaction of the Kuku and Lugabra from the southern region, Kakwa from the west, and the Bari from the north led to the ...

Easter Island is a remote, inhabited place in the Pacific Ocean. Its area is 150 square miles and it is 2,000 miles from South America’s west coast. Its peak population was about 7,000 in 1550. In spite of the superficial insignificance of this island, its history is a dismal warning to the entire world. Several changes occurred in the Easter Island environment due to human exploitation and affected the life and social organization of the islanders. Easter Island’s history is not one of the esoteric knowledge and lost civilizations. Rather it shows how human societies depend on ...

Ancient societies and their collapse pose a complicated issue in front human race. There are many ancient societies which have survived the test of time like Tikopea, Tonga, Java, Japan, but there are many which were weakened due to multi-factorial reasons which made it impossible to survive. Some societies were vulnerable to the environment and changing tides of time which led to their collapse.

Collapse of the Anasazi (Southwestern US)

The basic problem of collapse of Southwestern US society of Anasazi was its marginal and fragile environment for agriculture, soils which were quickly exhausted, slow forest regrowth and unpredictable and low rainfall. Environmental problems like streambed ...

Introduction

The Bayeux tapestry is a name derived from a French name Tapisserie de Bayeux for an embroidered cloth which is normally assumes to be an actual tapestry. This clothe has a measurement of about 70 meters long which illustrates the events leading to the Norman conquest of England that entails the famous William, Duke of Normandy. As a mode of rumor that was created in the in the eighteenth century, the Bayeux Tapestry was known to be the work of the Conqueror’s queen (Bruce, 2). As the rumors were, there is no type of evidence existing whether internal or external. The ...

Introduction

This is a case study of the Waterway Industries and its CEO, Cyrus Maher – the problem of increasing the benefits and salary of Lee Carter, the person in charge of the marketing department and is also the star player. This is focused on the decision he needs to make to either move his company forward or not make to keep his company how it used to be for over twenty seven years. This case study gives a typical scenario experienced by most CEOs when their companies expand and they have to either go along with the expansion or risk losing the ...