Part A
Holy: shrines is the word took my attention and
that’s the reason I chose it and wanted tot talk a little about it, a shrine
means a scared or holy place that
nacermia culture had at their houses , to devote their believes that
human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease .
Leaders: medicine men are the most powerful practitioners
in nacermia culture whom specialists in reading and writing a prescriptions for
their clients that can only be read by medicine men since its wrote in an
ancient and secret language.
Tradition: natives had Holy mouth men specialist
that are known to be below medicine men , people visit holy mouth men one to
twice a year to arrest decay and draw friends which is done by opening the
client mouth, and enlarging holes using tools to create a decay then put magical
materials.
torture: for examples the temples, which medicine men have in
every size in every community, and there where a very sick patients are treated.
The latipso temples are very harsh that is phenomenal that a fair proportion of
very sick natives who enter the temple ever recovered.
Luxury : native’s life was expensive because
they have to award the doctor and leaders so they can help them, they spend so
many gifts so they can live.
Part B
I am from the Middle East, but reading and
learning about a new culture is very interesting and I feel my words were
really meaningful in describing the Nacremia culture by their life style,
traditions and the specialists they have.
As a middle eastern, I am very used to traditions
and some cultural habits that have been known hundreds years ago, choosing some
of my words was based on my memory of some magical things Arabs used to and
still do that is close to ingredients that medicine man make up in the natives
culture which they believe its their ways of success, wealth and happiness.
When describing a culture, one should be
respectful and understandable to their habit and traditions, because there is
no way there is a culture with out traditions and personal believes. For
example I sometimes don’t understand some people’s believes or acts, because I
think it doesn’t make sense or I am not used to the way they think, and vice
versa, some people in the American culture don’t understand some of my family’s
thinking or traditions, since both of us lived in different cultures and grew
up on different believes.
I appreciate your insight from another culture, especially how your unique experiences came into play when deciding upon your descriptive words.
ReplyDeleteThe use of your term "respectful" in the last paragraph caught my attention. While I generally agree, the word itself is just loaded with cultural bias. All cultures have different ideas of how to be respectful, so while you may be thinking you are being considerate, you are actually causing offense. American tourists do this all the time!
Additionally, being respectful and being an anthropologist rarely go hand in hand. It is our job to ask questions and impose and to inquire into issues that are usually quite personal. So we have to develop the skill of being respectful with our disrespect, if that makes sense to you!
Good post.