week 6 blog post

 1. (the Yanomamo rules regarding killing and the consequences for breaking these rules differ from the rules in Western cultures in general?) Well let's first get started on the data. During the last 23 years 44 percent of males 25 or older have participated in a killing. Meaning 30 percent of adults will die from violence.  Over 70 percent of men have at least one member of the bloodline who has died. Our authors theory summarizes, two general theories, one that is approach of the political anthropology in which conflict develops for the goals of the individual would like to achieve in the latter, is development of historical specific conflicts, following the several key insights from modern revolutionary thought as our author continues to write the mechanisms that contribute to organisms were designed by selection to promote survival and reproduction in the environments of the evolution adaptiveness. All of this information is to say the difference between the western civilization and the specific tribe would be the food insecurity, the previous tension between neighbors and the societal acts that contribute to the glorification of killing, and that is one of the largest differences between the two cultures. Other relevant information is that some conflicts can begin over sexual issues, infidelity, and a suspicion. If one man attempts to seduce another man’s wife, sexual jealousy, forcible appropriation of women from visiting groups in failure to get a promise girl in marriage, and rape are also calls for violence.

2. When describing the process of revenge killing, it is expressed by the yanomamo population of southern Venezuela and proportions of northern Brazil. Blood revenge is one of the most common causes violence and warfare in primitive societies, and it’s persistent in mini state organized societies as well. Blood revenge as described by our author, shows the meaning of retaliatory killing in which the initial victim close can have a revenge rate on the members of the community on the initial killer. The Raiders always hope to kill the original killer, but the unfortunate reality is that any one of the community members is also a suitable target. 

3. Revenge killings are dangerous for those to take part. I will explain the benefits of attending the status of unokais, then I will explain the benefits of not receiving such status, and why would a man want to become a unokais? The benefits associated with revenge killing in the primitive world are able to gain a reputation for swift retaliation for an attack, and they are then presented with a less frequent amount of warfare and a lower rate of mortality. They also face less abduction of their women, and they are immediately considered to have an aggressive stance. Many of the groups do appear to calculate the cost and the benefits. The second most important part is men who demonstrate an exact revenge for the death of their kin,they may have a higher marital and reproductive success. when talking about the terms of Unokais. To have the word Pistone upon you is to say those you have killed, after which you must perform a ritual purification called unokaimou. to avert any supernatural harm that might be inflicted on him by his soul of the victim. As previously stated from the last couple of paragraphs, not having this term means you’re not willing to kill those who have killed your kin meaning lovers do not think you have male dominance within the tribe. Therefore, it prevents the opportunity of you expanding your heritage.

4. Now I would love to describe the relationship between revenge, killing, and all of the aspects of the culture and how they influence and affect each other. 

 Social Status/Social Organization 

 The culture is defined by some 1500 individuals that are subdivided into approximately 200 political independent communities, as what will be mentioned within the marriage and the reproduction section. It should also be noted that those who have several generations of the same male bloodline will have the opportunity of being the big ones who are the political leaders and is inevitably the head man of the village If there is a marriage to the first cross cousin. If they marry each other's sister, political leaders, therefore, usually have on average more Kingsman in the village.

Kinship- there are many powerful motives as the tribal groups organized by kinship. One of the first is to understand how complex and persuasive, kinship relationships are to such community centers. It is a major foundation of people's political status, economic support, and marriage, possibilities, and protection from aggressors derives from kinship.  One of the most important functions of kinship groups is they pool resources, relocate them to needy members in contacts of threats or consortium with others by way of politically violent encounters. They form group members who cooperate for mutual protection, and use their skills and abilities towards this end, including the capabilities of all group members to act violently if necessary. All of the villages have several unnamed descendants, males and females of all ages who are related to each other through the mail line of dissent members of these groups and must find their spouses in some sort of other dissent group, preferably within the village.

Marriage & Reproduction - or exchanges between groups over several generations. Each group has someone called the big one. These are where political leaders in the group are headmen of the village. What if the villages have two groups that are equally sized? They then must have two or more leaders who because of past marriages between their groups, and often cross cousins marry the sisters, political leaders, therefore usually have on average many more Kingsman in the village, then do other men of comparable age. Headsmen are usually polygynous as they will end up over their lifetime have dozens or more different wife's. but no more than six wives simultaneously one result is that someone will how many children in the simple consideration here one man now deceased had 43 children by 11 wives’ needless to say nuclear and extended families cannot only become very large for their respective members because of their representative intermarriages are related to each other in many different ways. 

5. Behaviors that are usually labeled as “anti-social”, such as killing other people, are generally thought to be a bad thing to do under most circumstances, other than defense. Why do we need laws against something that no one should want to do?  Use your reading of the article to help you explain your answer. 

   Inside of the western world, we have an interesting method at which we deal with the murdering of our fellow kin. The necessary laws and functions of our civilization by focusing on trial and having that continuation instead of just having the family members, going out and brutally murdering the person who did it. It is because of a huge cultural difference that is compared to our western world versus what we had read about within the tribe. We must remember that our social structures are beliefs and arrangements are solely something that we are accustomed to, and if we bring our exact same merits of justice to any other tribe that does not represent what we do. We will most likely not be able to get our point across. We also must make these laws, because that is what structures us in our own unique way, and by recognizing that and giving credence, we are able to then build upon our own civilization. our beginning ancestors had crafted our country throughout the whole course., having to choose their own unique perspectives in ways in order to deal with situations, and I find that this is the case, as killing is considered antisocial within the west, and will result in you going to prison as well, regardless of whether or not you were doing it for a justified reason or just for fun. These laws are put into place because this is fundamentally what we believe in.