First Blog

                                                                             Lascaux: Art as a Culture Functions of Early Art I feel like the cave artists were trying to show us what life was like during their time period. The animals in the portraits show movement of expression, as if the artists wanted to show us what they functioned and behaved like. I think that the reason there were more animals than people in the paintings were because there might have been more animals than humans during that time period. These artists might have found it easier to paint animals because there were no artists during that time period and if there were they probably didn't know what an artists was. Therefore painting humans was more difficult for them. The paintings can tel...

 In the Western culture today, the laws are to prevent people from killing another person. There are laws that are very strict and will punish a person who does not obey them, such as the death penalty and life in prison. The Yanomamo have no formal laws and written language. Since the Yanomamo have no form of written laws, the rules are broken almost everyday. In the Yanomamo population, one of the most common reasons for killing is for revenge on a previous killing. The main reason this is known as revenge in the Yanomamo is because of the women. The people who are out for revenge have to be careful for revenge coming back to their direction. This culture see revenge as a social benefit, giving men who take part of revenge as having higher reproductive success and marital success. One who kills must follow a ritual protection called unokaimou. The main purpose of the ritual is to make any supernatural harm on oneself from the soul of the victim go away. One benefit of being a uno...

 Part 1: I feel like this part of the experiment was the most difficult because of not being able to use any type of normal language. Not being able to use normal language was difficult because it's something that I use everyday and communicating made it really challenging. The person I was communicating with had trouble understanding a lot of the body language and hand signs I was using. My partner's impressions throughout the conversation were very expressive. Their hand and facial expressions became very demonstrative, as if he were trying to throw out the information I had trouble communicating to him. He made a lot of speaking gestures and hand gestures in an effort to try and understand the information that I tried to communicate. I feel like the culture that can speak has an advantage in communicating very difficult ideas because it allows them to express all their ideas at their full capacity. The speaking culture might see the other culture that uses symbolic language ...