Tsembaga Maring Culture
From KstructIB
Pg 108- Tsembaga Maring Culture as an Adaptive System (Rappapport)
They are maladaptive- as they are producing many pigs but there still
exists a deficiency of protein. Their fighting, however, is adaptive.
This confirms Cultural Ecology.
Notes on The Johansi in 1998 (video)
Hunting and gathering skills/techniques are very similar to !Kung
in the 1970s.
The Johansi had governmental support. Materially, there were given
clothes/shoes, food/water/housing/cattle.
Because of all this Westernisation, many of the Johansi people started
drinking alcohol, and eventually became alcoholics.
Comparison between the !Kung and the Johansi
The environmental aspects between the !kung and the Johansi are very
similar. They both share a very extensive and detailed understanding of
the land, and have similar hunting and gathering skills and techniques
(e.g. using poison from insect larvae in their arrows). There is a slight
difference in their housing set-up, as, at one point, due to governmental
encouragement, the Johansi moved to more ‘Western’ housing made of concrete.
However, they soon moved out back to their traditional mud and straw huts,
which are similar to those which house the !Kung.
In terms of social change, much more has occurred in the Johansi in
relation to the !Kung. The !Kung have had very little interference from
any foreign people, whereas the government has intervened on the Johansi
band in an attempt to Westernise them.
Quotes from books which support the theory that Capitalist ideas are
penetrating SSSs:
- “Efficient forms of economic and managerial organisation lead to
development, which many SSSs are adopting.”
- “Most MEDC governments encouraged foreign investment and placed few
restrictions on the operation of foreign investors in their states.
- “Capitalist economies depend on Southern Imports.”
