I am 18 year old, I live in New Zealand.
Im half maori ( native nz ) and half American.
Im doing a course at university to become a personal trainer.
Im in good shape, quite a muscular build.
Green eyes, weird orangish colour round my pupils.
Im funny, understanding, kind, out there, trust-worthy, ambitious and respectful towards woman. Dont do drugs, But do drink.
So im pretty much asking, am I a quite a catch? Honestly, if not, do say so. I also have a tribal, family tattoo, it comes down to my elbow.
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Thanks. Be honest.
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you're okay but not really my type based just on looks
Examples of Cultural Practices, or Objects?
Q. I need some examples of these for an anthropology paper I'm helping my mom to complete. We have a few ideas, but we want some more choices, in case we can't find enough research material for ours. Here's what we got so far:
Cultural practices
1) Indian Suttee
2) Chinese foot binding
3) Native American Sweat outs
Cultural Objects:
1)Didgeridoo (that wind instrument from Australia)
2) Totem poles
Any other practice or object you can think of, along with what group it belongs to would be great. It can be well known or obscure, doesn't really matter. Thanks YA!!
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Living cultures only, or from extinct societies as well?
I'm including on this list things that originate only as symbols, but are or were made into objects frequently, when the objects were/are meant to convey meaning.
Egypt: the ankh
India: the mandala
Japan: Mount Fuji (Fuji-san)
China (and elsewhere): yin and yang
Europe (and elsewhere): the Christian cross
20th-century Germany: the swastika
India, other parts of Asia, and elsewhere: the swastika (both clockwise and counter-clockwise configurations)
Pre-21st-century Roman Catholics: not eating meat on Fridays
Many parts of Africa: circumcision (of both males and females; and in some places done to children, in other places, to adults)
Europe, North and South America, many other places: tattooing
Europe: good-luck horseshoes
Ancient Mayans, and other Central Americans: ear-spools
Ancient Greece, and Europe into modern times: the symbols for male and female
Ancient Greece, ancient Rome: the signs of the zodiac
Africa, and many other tribal cultures: the sending of young men into the wilderness as a coming-of-age rite. The rules about their length of time, how much contact with humans they may have, and the conditions they need to meet in order to return, vary widely. I believe the Zulus in southern Africa have some of the best-documented customs re: coming-of-age journeys.
English-derived cultures: for weddings/brides, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."
There is a tribe/cultural group somewhere in Asia, I think, where the young men are required to climb to the top of a tall, specially-built tower, tie vine ropes around their ankles, and jump off, as their coming-of-age ceremony.
Europe and North America: making New Year's resolutions.
Scotland: preparing for a tall, dark stranger to be the first to cross a family's threshold on New Year's Day.
Europe: putting a cut tree (usually an evergreen) into the top-most window of a building when it has finally been built up to its final height -- not necessarily when the building is finished, only when it will get no taller.
Africa: Zulu high-jumping dancers
New Zealand: Maori haka dancers (the haka is a war dance, and is only to be danced by men. Used nowadays to start team sports games)
Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Belgium: building nesting platforms on the rooves of house, to encourage mated storks to build their nests there.
Germany: choosing a (live) Christmas tree to cut down *only* if it has a bird's nest in it (abandoned from the summer)
Native Americans: women who were menstruating going to a special "women's house" or "women's compound," and staying there for the duration, with limited or no contact with their families or the rest of the tribe.
Europe: the breaking of a poultry-fowl's wish-bone at or after dinner
South Seas island cultures: men going naked, except for penis sheaths (various materials, depending on which culture)
Australia: Aboriginal rock paintings and rock carvings, esp those depicting Dreamtime stories and spirit lore
Australia: Aboriginal places set aside exclusively for "secret men's business" and "secret women's business"
Medieval and Renaissance Europe: extremely elaborate salt-cellars, set on the dining table as symbols of wealth and status (especially the "nefs," salt-cellars shaped like ships in full sail; and the salt-cellars carved out of solid rock-crystal)
Western societies: three golden balls, indicating a pawn-broker's shop
Western societies: the red-and-white, spiral-striped barber's pole
From Europe, but now world-wide: the caduceus, indicating a doctor
India: "death houses" for those in the last stages of dying, and their families
Pre 21st-century Western societies: the red cross painted on first-aid kits
Western societies: Christmas trees, even for non-Christians
Where is it in Africa that certain groups pierce holes in the lower lip, and insert plates?
Look up any sort of ceremony you can think of, and there will be objects and activities associated with them. That includes (you may have noticed on my list :-D ) our own. Standard occasions for ceremonies include all of the changes in life circumstances: birth, naming, dying, death, weddings and marriage, coming-of-age (to adulthood), change-of-name on becoming an adult in some societies, committing a crime, punishing a crime, moving into a new house, building a new building, parenthood, menopause for women, illness, funerals/wakes and burials, etc. There are also practices and objects associated with everyday things: all sorts of good-luck charms and rituals, necessities-that-aren't connected with eating, things to do if you break something, cozy rituals for "apologizing to the universe" if you say something you shouldn't, or the like, and so on. "Step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back," etc.
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