A fascinating look at the life of hunter gatherers in African. The Hadzabe didn't seem to have much interest in the after-life, and all answers went back to being about meat. They are so friendly, healthy, and attractive, but not so friendly to baboons, though.
The Hadza Tribe or Hadzabe are a remote African Tribe of Hunter-Gatherers in African country of Tanzania. A few months ago, I was lucky to enough to be able to join them on a hunt to baboons. We didn't catch any, so we decided to return to try again. Right before raiding the baboon camp, I took a quiet moment to ask Soloco, the tribe's leader some of life's deepest questions. These were his responses.
Asking Hunter-Gatherers Life's Toughest Questions
RAIDING A BABOON CAMP with Hadza Hunter-Gatherers in Tanzania
CATCHING BABOONS with the HADZA PEOPLE (We finally got them)
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I thought about watching a couple of minutes of the first video to see what this was about. Got hooked and ended up watching all three videos. More interesting than most movies I've watched. Quite educational too.
Thanks Kaivey.
The same as me.
I like to put some variation on MNEs.
I like to put some variation on MNEs.
:)
"Habeas Corpus"
Literally means "You must have the body."
Habeas: "You must have..." 2nd person present subjunctive of the verb "habeo," "to have."
Corpus: "...the body." It's the accusative case of the neuter noun "corpus." In the neuter, the nominative and accusative cases have the same form. The noun has to be in the accusative case because it is the direct object. It answers the question "what?" So "Have what?" "The body."
Of course, I know next to nothing when it comes to Latin, but the Greek helps in understanding the syntax :)
So now you know exactly what the above legal phrase means :)
I am not sure. I see nothing here I have not done myself as I grew up. Only the biting the gazelle which seems bizarre and curious because, they have knives they can use.
What happens after you die?
"We kill a big animal and wrap the body in the the hide.. We believe it goes to the sun but we don't really know."
Imagine if that were Christianity or Islam's standard line.
I thought they were going to come out with a load of stuff about spirits and gods, etc, but they didn't even have a spirit that brought the meat.
Persistence hunting (sometimes called endurance hunting) is a hunting technique in which hunters, who may be slower than their prey over short distances, use a combination of running, walking, and tracking to pursue prey until it is fatigued or overheated. A persistence hunter must be able to run a long distance over an extended period of time. The strategy is used by a variety of canids such as African wild dogs, and by human hunter-gatherers.
Humans are the only surviving primate species that practises persistence hunting. In addition to a capacity for endurance running, human hunters have comparatively little hair, which makes sweating an effective means of cooling the body. Meanwhile, ungulates and other mammals may need to pant to cool down enough, which also means that they must slow down if not remain still.
Persistence hunting is believed to have been one of the earliest hunting strategies used by humans. It is still used effectively by the San people in the Kalahari Desert, and by the Rarámuri people of Northwestern Mexico.
The Intense 8 Hour Hunt | Attenborough Life of Mammals | BBC Earth
re: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
The buffalo jump was used for 5,500 years by the indigenous peoples of the plains to kill buffalo by driving them off the 11 metre (36 foot) high cliff. Before the late introduction of horses, the Blackfoot drove the buffalo from a grazing area in the Porcupine Hills about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the site to the "drive lanes", lined by hundreds of cairns, by dressing up as coyotes and wolves. These specialized "buffalo runners" were young men trained in animal behavior to guide the buffalo into the drive lanes. Then, at full gallop, the buffalo would fall from the weight of the herd pressing behind them, breaking their legs and rendering them immobile. The cliff itself is about 300 metres (1000 feet) long, and at its highest point drops 10 metres (33 ft) into the valley below. The site was in use at least 6,000 years ago, and the bone deposits are 12 metres (39 feet) deep. After falling off the cliff, the injured buffalo were finished off by other Blackfoot warriors at the cliff base armed with spears and clubs.
Great scene:
https://youtu.be/y5QLvoLxSow
What happens after you die?
You cease to exist.
Kaivey- Me too! I was expecting an ancestor cult or some animist folk religion that are so common among traditional peoples... These are eminently practical people. Meat and honey are their priorities.. and the straight away "but we don't really know" warmed my heart.
I bet you've seen this but it's pretty cool if you haven't. It's well known that baboons run a water hiding racket and you gotta shake 'em down occasionally lol https://youtu.be/CIRucMIxwM8
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