Recently we bought the BBC DVD Tribe - Bruce Parry (http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/bbcdvd2418). This DVD is very very interesting. It shows a lot about how various tribes live. Some more "civilized" than others. I have found it very interesting to see how children are participating in everything. There is no difference between adult life and child life. Children are simply part of life.
Recently I watched a BBC tv program which was about obese teenagers who went to life with a tribe in Borneo in the long houses.
At some point during this tv program one of the females of the teenagers stated that she didn't like it that the men went hunting and the women stayed behind doing stuff around the long house, cooking, gathering etc.
She also wanted to hunt and felt this was violating her equal rights.
The tribe spokesmen simply said that things were that way.
I fully understood. And I will tell you why:
When women would go hunting, how will they do this with a baby or a child at the breast? Men have a more muscular body, they were made to go hunting and run for long periods of time.
Women have, from old times, taken care of other parts of life and as they have the boobs they also have more to do with the children. Simple as that.
I am not able to understand why women have to life a men's life to feel good about themselves. Women are better skilled for gathering and caring, men for hunting and protecting. For me no sweat in that.
I actually noticed that with driving I tend to take the known ways, sometimes that can be a bit of a detour. My partner, however, tends to take a more direct way, whether new or not.
This fits with the gatherer and hunter mentality.
Hunters have to go where ever to get the meat. Gatherers tend to pass the same area's to see if there is any more food to find. Gatherers do not fully empty it in general, as there needs to be growth which will provide more.
It was a very interesting talk that we had about this.
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