The Enga People🇵🇬: Professor Weissner. скачать в хорошем качестве

The Enga People🇵🇬: Professor Weissner.

THE MAKING OF TRIBE _POLLY WIESSNER _OUR TRIBAL NATURE: TRIBALISM , POLITICS , and EVOLUTION. Being human means wanting to belong to something bigger than ourselves. Evolved psychological mechanisms drive us to form bonded groups of kin and non-kin with strong loyalties, and we create cultural constructions that affirm our group identity: shared names, histories, membership, beliefs, and heritage. This is tribalism, which is fundamental to human behavior–-so much so that when existing tribes decline, new ones will arise. Using the pre-colonial tribal histories of the Enga of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Wiessner will explore how tribes are formed. How do groups acquire the shared names, origins, traditions, beliefs, and cultural practices that bond their members into cooperative units? How do they mediate internal conflict and competition? She’ll examine how these cultural constructions activate emotional and psychological responses under different conditions, drawing on interviews with tribal members. Finally, she will consider the transformation of traditional tribes, and the creation of new ones, in the context of current national politics. This talk was part of a Leakey Foundation Survival Symposium entitled, "Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution." The symposium was held in September 2019 at the Morgan Library in New York. About the speaker: Polly Wiessner is a professor of anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and a research professor at the University of Utah. She is an anthropologist who has studied tribes all over the world, from the San of the Kalahari Desert to the Enga in the lush mountains of Papua New Guinea. Since 1985, Dr. Wiessner has conducted ethnohistorical research among the Enga of Papua New Guinea on developments in subsistence, warfare, ritual, and exchange from the time of the arrival of the sweet potato to first contact with Europeans some 350 years later. She is currently studying new trends in warfare and peace-making among the Enga and researching how customary courts administer restorative justice to maintain harmony within and between tribes in the face of rapidly changing times and new technologies, such as cell phones and guns. A primary focus of her historical and present-day research is to understand the array of cultural institutions that bond Enga into tribal units for war and for peace. ✍️Source: Enga History and Archive