CULTURAL

Cultural

Introduction

The human beings live and are organized differently. There are no better or inferior forms of societal organization they respond to the needs and customs of each group. They also respond to changes in society over time. So the family has been different depending on the conditions, places and times where it is located. The culture of Malaysia has developed over a few years of history, with the union of different customs, traditions and ideas brought by many different invaders and the indigenous inhabitants. The diversity of cultural practices, languages, customs and monuments in Malaysia today are the result of these combinations over the centuries. These cultures have been changed over the years.

Thesis Statement

From emergence up till now there have been no change in Batek (Malaysian Culture).

Outline

This report provides comprehensive information regarding what culture is, more specifically Batek Culture in Malaysia, its key features and aspects. This report also provides knowledgeable information concerning Culture Primary mode of subsistence that includes Foragers, Horticulturalists, Pastoralists, Emerging Agriculturalists, and Agrarian States or Industrialists. This report also provides Analysis and explanation of the impact that the primary mode of subsistence of the selected culture has on Kinship Social organization Political organization as well as Gender Relation. All in all this is a quite interesting report for readers who want to gain some information regarding Batek.

Discussion

Batek culture displays striking features. People get a few possessions (possessions are a nuisance for nomads, and all are expected to share food without considering who obtained. Hate violence, aggression and physical coercion, things they find offensive not only against humans, but against the divine beings who are the gods of the Batek. The bateks are still hunter gathers in Malaysian forest and jungles. Rarer still, there is little difference between men and women in regard to their behavior and their contribution to camp life. Both are raising children and, although men usually deal with hunting (using bamboo blowguns and poison darts while women tend to deal with digging for tubers, both sexes take part in these activities and any they give them higher status.

Batek agriculture has suffered greatly as they were forced to leave their land, forgo their agricultural activities of planting and cropping. Virtually away from the modern world, immersed in their own world within the forest, the tribe of the "Batek, which has seen its population reduced to less than a thousand people, hunters and gatherers of the rain forest in Malaysia have extended a bridge with civilization through tourism, hence giving birth to industrialism.

Thus, each year, between 80,000 and 100,000 tourists visit Taman Negara to live with these people, night trips for game viewing, bird watching and visiting exotic village. "Batek" in which, among other things, can learn to create fire from a stick and a vine. The money they receive from the tourists is be used to buy food, snuff and lighters in the markets and Kampung Kuala Tahan Tembeling.Culture Primary mode of subsistenceForaging

Foraging involves hunting of animals, preys for the purpose of survival. Foraging hunter-gatherers indicate a certain level of development of human societies. Society of hunters and gatherers is characterized by assigning economies (assigning household) and a high horizontal mobility. Strategy optimal, foraging is a concept that can explain the choice of predators. Two points are essential:

predators choose prey more profitable;

Predators tend to concentrate their hunting effort in areas where preys are most abundant.

Foraging activities with respect to Batek of Malaysia include hunting that is done since early days up till now in their jungles as well as in the forests. Batek Negritos from the vicinity of Taman Negara National Park ...