KEWA PEOPLE

Josephides: Kewa people are "equal but different"?

Josephides Argument: Kewa people are "equal but different"?

Introduction

In Kewa the people are subsistence horticulturalists and pig keepers. Their dietary food crop of sweet potatoes, although the native container and also introduced the taro plant. Sweet potatoes accounted for about 85 percent of calorie intake. Harvesting sweet potatoes occurs 5-8 months after planting, depending on soil and sediment. In slashing, burning, and cutting down trees and plowing of the soil is acting as men. Women promote slashing and cleaning the grass, and they are responsible for the final design, planting, weeding, harvesting, and transportation of sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes, baked in the ashes of a fire or in pots.

According to Josephides, (1985, 205) In Kewa people, there are two main types of gardens: the maapu and ee. The first of these is usually a sweet potato, cassava, sugar cane, and food pitpit, while vegetables may be introduced and cultivated. In sweet potato vines are planted on mounds, round or rectangular, which increase the drainage and the use of natural compost from clearing and weeding. The ee is an overgrown maapu, garden or forest, as well as the first green and old sweet potatoes, which are also used as pig feed. Other food crops are cucumbers, beans, corn, cabbage, onions, peanuts and pumpkins. All these products are referred to, as well as pineapple, slices of pork and fried liver is usually sold in local markets. Two types of pandanus are harvested (screw pine overall), including with a large nut and the other with a long red fruits, collect.

The main commercial crop is Arabica coffee, while tea, Chile and Pyrethrum are brought to justice. Pig is the principal domestic animals, and elaborate ceremonies and rituals associated with it. Other animals include chickens, the occasional goat, a few animals, and penned cassowaries.

Impact on Kewa extends far beyond the areas they inhabit. Critics often include discussion of the Kewaian style in the Khassonke (in the language group Kassonke-about 1% of the population of Mali), Malinke, Marka (from Soninkés grop) and Minianka (in Minianka have Senoufo Mamara). Kewa differ because they have different versions of the style can not be easily identified from the parts that have been collected (Luezinger 1960, p. 76). Although there are some differences, the sculptures were all in the hands of the Nuni (now called numuw) - a caste of ancient stock Mande smiths located in the vast territory of Sudan (Luezinger p. 76 and Ulrich 1996).

Josephides says for Kewa in man is the seed of the universe. His art is used in ceremonies designed to monitor the environment. Man does not exist as an individual, but as a person (s word means "mask" from the Latin word persona artificial person are actors), as suggested by Marcel Mauss (with honors in Huet 1978, p. 17). Marcel Griaule (who has done extensive research of indigenous cultures) wrote that "the dancer plays a part are protected in a wooden object, sculptural mask ...