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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN THE SEVEN BASIC NEEDS OF MAN 1. Metabolism. These are the needs of air, water and food. What do they eat? This factor essentially decides the professions of the tribe. A cattle breeding tribe of Dinka rely essentially on their cattle for food, whereas the agricultural communities like the Hamites, Sudanese and the Bantus rely on their farm products and the forest resources Each tribe therefore have developed their special ways living; and the necessary technologies for such comfortable living has been gradually developed. Their ways of life are determined essentially by these factors. The pastoral communities like the Dinkas and the Mundaries are nomadic, moving from one place to the other wherever they can find water and food for their cattle. In the north, there are cattle tribes and camel tribes as further 25
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN examples. Each such clans works out a permanent plan for their annual movement across the land to and fro within the geographical range, so that each clan chief will be able to tell where his clan is settled at any particular time with some certainty. Because of the necessity for the constant movement their settlements are not permanent and are usually made of perishable materials that can be discarded. They seldom live in permanent buildings except by the chiefs and elders, old and the new born. On the other hand agricultural communities can afford luxury or permanently built houses. They normally make their settlements and build their cities and townships near rivers and streams or wherever water can be easily found and the land is fertile. How do they eat? Do they ear together? Is there segregation between men, women, and children? What is the role of the women in the food production, preservation and preparation? Women are a major labor force in agricultural field maintenance as a helpmeet to their husbands. So also among the Nilotics womenfolk provides labor force for regular milking of the cows. In many Sudanese tribes where men eat alone before women, there exists a taboo on chicken meat and egg. They are eaten only by the women and children thereby providing them with enough protein which they may miss otherwise. Tools for cooking, serving, eating as well as pots, pans and bottles are determined by their availability and necessity. While cooking is done in earthen vessels, storing is done usually in calabashes and baskets. Granaries are part of the 26
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