1. Click on Mursi Tribe, Ethiopia
Patterns of Life
Lesson #4

2. Essential Questions:
Describe some aspects of life in Africa
How is religion for a Tribe in Africa different than the “average” person in America

3. Describe what you see

4. Is this tasteful?

5. Is this tasteful?

6. How about this?

7. Or this…

8. Get ready…

9. What is tasteful body mutilation?

10. Ethnocentrism
Definition: When we judge others based on our own opinion of what is “right” We need to avoid judging. Individual cultures have their own ideas of Beauty Justice Food Etc.

11. Family Ties Hunting Societies – lived in NUCLEAR families
Why?
Herding Societies – also nuclear
All cattle were in the Masai family
Farming Societies – lived in EXTENDED families
Why would this help?
People associated into
TRIBES
CLANS
LINEAGES

12. Describe two nuclear families
A personal one (yours, or one you know)
A TV or movie example:

13. TRIBES, CLANS, LINEAGES LINEAGES – People in the same family
CLANS – groups of lineages living in same area
TRIBES – several clans loosely organized together
TRIBE
CLANS
LINEAGES

14. COUNCIL ROCK SCHOOL DIST.
TRIBES, CLANS, LINEAGES
TRIBE
CLANS
LINEAGES
COUNCIL ROCK SCHOOL DIST.
CRHS SOUTH
OUR CLASS

15. Commercial Break
Why would Farming Societies need to live in extended families?
Why would herding societies prefer to live in nuclear families?

16. Patterns of Government
Villages had their own justice
THE MASK was used for an individual to become a village judge
The guy who wore the mask would BECOME THE JUDGE, but only while wearing the mask

17. The Mask
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18. Economic Organization
Farming societies – No one OWNED land
Everyone worked farm together
Why will this become an issue once the slave trade begins?
Herding societies – saw the animal as valuable, and land was NOT owned
Everyone owned all cattle
Example: Massai people
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19. The Massai camp
I went to in Kenya
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22. Lives of Women Women ran the home In charge of building the home
In charge of children
In charge of food & water
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Married VERY young (14-15)
Men sometimes purchased a wife
“bride wealth” – purchase price
POLYGAMY sometimes allowed
(men could marry more than one wife)

23. Where I was in Kenya,
Women did all the farming

24. The Age Grade System An AGE GRADE is all people of the same age
Each age grade would go through rituals together to learn the values of society
Lion hunting is viewed by Maasai society as an act of bravery skill, wisdom, and achievement.
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Just use first 30 sec.

25. Commercial Break What is an age-grade you are now in?
What is an example of a societal ritual you have, or will go through?

26. African Religions Traditional Beliefs Diviners Healers
believed in a single, distant God (MONOTHEISTIC)
Believed ancestors could help connect to God
Believed all creatures had a spirit
Diviners
Connected the living with the dead
Healers
Looked for behaviors which caused illness
Provided “medicine”
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28. African Religions Death Medicine
Very careful to provide a proper funeral
To help person find next life successfully
Avoid a wandering ghost
Believe the dead have power over the living
Remove body through a hole in the wall
Avoids return of the dead
Medicine
Sometime herbs
Sometimes “created” and blown into a statue

29. Commercial Break
Why would Africans be so careful to care for their dead?
What is medicine?

30. Final review
List 5 new things you learned about culture in Africa.