Your final exam will be on Monday 28th October @ 08h30. Please contact me if you have any questions. 083 631 2658
As part of your preparation if you would like an Ecopy of the Sept paper set by Bodenstein as an internal test send me an Email and I will copy it to you. lynn@ecology.co.za (The test paper comes with a memorandum)
Friday 27 September 2013
Thursday 26 September 2013
Final session 2nd October
Looking forward to our last session together on the 2nd October. Please come prepared with print-outs of any previous question papers - for discussion.
Also you may want to check out these Websites :
Kind regards
Lynn Hurry
Also you may want to check out these Websites :
http://wikistudent.ws/Unisa/APY2601
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(Culture as human resource in the African context) at Unisa: The anthropology
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Friday 30 August 2013
Assignment 2 Due on the 5th September
Herewith some ideas re Assignment 2.
ASSIGNMENT
02 GUIDELINES : Lynn Hurry
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This table shows
the page references for your Assignment due on or before the 5th
September.
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Since we have not
yet dealt with the sections on kinship diagrams I have provided the answers
that I see as correct for Questions 5, 6, 7 & 9.
· If you have any
problems contact me on 083 631 2658. If required I can meet you for
discussion usually all day Friday and any other day after 16h00.
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QUESTION
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QUESTION
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PAGE NO
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1
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43
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9
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Answer 3
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2
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62
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10
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121/122
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3
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83
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11
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130
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4
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84
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12
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143/ 144
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5
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Answer 1
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13
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141
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6
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Answer 2
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14
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See below
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7
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Answer 4
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15
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146
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8
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See below
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For Question 8 : Sororal polygamy
(P119); Heterogenous polyandry (119); fraternal polyandry(119)
For Question 13 : Totem
(P139); Umlaza(P142); Familiars (P142);
Talismans (P141)
For Question 14 : Totem
(P139); Fetish(P140); Mana (P141/142); Amulets (P141)
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Sunday 11 August 2013
Paul Hawken's address
Posted
on May 21, 2009 by Global MindShift
When
I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short
talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering,
startling, and graceful.” No pressure there.
Let’s
begin with the startling part. Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure
out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living
system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a
mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last
thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, civilization needs a new
operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.
“…the earth needs a new operating system, you are
the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.”
This
planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them.
Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth
get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster
Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a
clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per
hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good
food—but all that is changing.
There
is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case
you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: You are
Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring. The earth couldn’t afford to send
recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries,
night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take
the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not
possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not
possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only
after you are done.
When
asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always
the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and
aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people
who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t
optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary
people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to
restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet
Adrienne Rich wrote, “So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those
who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the
world.” There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is
reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms,
jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and
slums.
“YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING.”
You
join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and
organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate
change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human
rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather
than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to
disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes
and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this
movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the
world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers,
children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists,
government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers,
weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving
Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America,
and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves
us all in such a huge way.
There
is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah
arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true. Inspiration is
not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity’s
willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and
reconsider. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the
voices around you kept shouting their bad advice,” is Mary Oliver’s description
of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the
living world.
Millions
of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is
usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has religious,
even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots. Abolitionists
were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the
rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had filed a
grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were
largely unknown — Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood — and their
goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in
the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done
for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity.
Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives,
do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy
and drive England into poverty. But for the first time in history a group of
people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom
they would never receive direct or indirect benefit. And today tens of millions
of people do this every day. It is called the world of non-profits, civil
society, schools, social entrepreneurship, non-governmental organizations, and
companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their
strategic goals. The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.
“Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it
is a way to be rich.”
The
living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know
about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the
conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a
future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and
tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers
advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. We are the only
species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy
that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than
renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you
can’t print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future,
selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just
as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of
stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of
the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever
we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for
the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
The
first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its
direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing
molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono.
We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the
dream of every cell is to become two cells. And dreams come true. In each of
you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your
body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in
hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of
processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human
body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with
twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times
more processes than there are stars in the universe, which is exactly what
Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living
creature was a “little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms,
inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.”
“We are here because the dream of every cell is to
become two cells.”
So
I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body? Stop for a
moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and
your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when
this speech will end. You can feel it. It is called life. This is who you are.
Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those
molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the conditions
that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. Our innate
nature is to create the conditions that are conducive to life. What I want you
to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in
coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every
thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would
create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous
by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch
television.
This
extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple
dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years,
not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the
stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course
in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing,
stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation. The generations before
you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight
of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature
beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most
unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes
sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it
and run as if your life depends on it.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Paul Hawken is a renowned entrepreneur, visionary
environmental activist, and author of many books, most recently Blessed Unrest:
How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It
Coming. He was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by
University president Father Bill Beauchamp, C.S.C., in May, when he delivered
this superb speech. Our thanks especially to Erica Linson for her help making
that moment possible.
Thursday 1 August 2013
Female circumcision
Body Modifications (Section 5.5)
Not all modifications are voluntary. The practice of female circumcision (page 56) is not a voluntary undertaking..
For information on female circumcision (clitoridectomy) refer to Google. Be warned some sites are disturbingly graphic.
Female circumcision presents a high risk of infection.
Male circumcision in some African tribes is undertaken voluntarily, but if nor managed well also presents significant health risks, sometimes causing permanent damage (e.g. loss of the male organ) even death (thr infection.)
Not all modifications are voluntary. The practice of female circumcision (page 56) is not a voluntary undertaking..
For information on female circumcision (clitoridectomy) refer to Google. Be warned some sites are disturbingly graphic.
Female circumcision presents a high risk of infection.
Male circumcision in some African tribes is undertaken voluntarily, but if nor managed well also presents significant health risks, sometimes causing permanent damage (e.g. loss of the male organ) even death (thr infection.)
Video clips on body decorations
Learning Theme 5 : Try googling video clips on anthropology : Body decorations
Examples : Taboo ? Scarifications and Tribal body art
Examples : Taboo ? Scarifications and Tribal body art
Sunday 28 July 2013
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