sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2014

Culture and Traditions



CULTURE AND TRADITION




Culture exists in all human communities, its what separates us from lower mammals. it's basically the ways in which we show we're different and have a superior intellect/ sets of skills.

In the earliest human communities, this took the form of gradually developing ways of using the environment constructively , for example - hunt animal, kill and skin animal, cook animals flesh, feed family, then - clean and wear animal skins, use animal bones to make needles, arrowheads, etc.
 Then - paint images of hunt - scenes on cave walls, fashion pots from clay, find rare stones and shells, give them to wisest leader person, etc etc 




Tradition is  passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication. 


why is tradition important?? 


Actual traditions aren't important, but it's why you make them a tradition that matters. They are a trigger, a reason to get together, they get you in the right mind set. 

You can fall back on traditions, they bring back happy memories. Without traditions life would not be as fulfilled. Without traditions it'ss not necessarily worse, but it's better with them. It is human nature to make traditions you'll always end up with them. Traditions can be anonymous to rituals. In traditions, you can share in other peoples lives.







PANAMÁ IS VERY RICH IN CULTURE AND TRADITIONS



The Embera–Wounaan is a semi-nomadic indigenous people in Panama, living in the province of Darien at the shores of theChucunaqueSambuTuira Rivers and its water ways. The Embera-Wounaan were formerly and widely known by the nameChocó, and they speak the Embera and Wounaan languages, part of the Chocoan language family.




The Chocó, or Embera people live in small villages of 5 to 20 houses along the banks of the rivers throughout the Chucunaque/Tuira/Balsas River watersheds in the Darien Province of Panama. There are generally three villages on each tributary that branches off from the main river system. Each village is about a half day's walk apart. The villages are built on a small rise, set approximately 100 feet in from the river. 



The calabash tree is important to the Embera, who scoop out the tree's gourds for cups and bowls, as well as spoons. Apart from wild fish and game, still hunted with snares, blow guns, bows and arrows, as well as firearms, an essential part of their diet is manioc, a poisonous root which must be pressed before cooking into a flatbread that stores well and can be used to absorb fluids during a meal.







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