Olivia's Blog

 The culture I chose for this assignment is the Sherpa culture of Central Asia. The Sherpa culture is found in the northeastern Nepal and a few places in India. Sherpa villages are placed at relatively high elevation and some even sit at the base of Mount Everest. The Sherpa people speak Nepali and their dialect comes form Tibetan. The Sherpa rely on their field agriculture of potatoes, barely, and wheat. The Sherpa people are Buddhist so they do not consume meat or kill animals. Trading and labor work are done by men while women do most of the agricultural work. Marriages are usually monogamist and arranged by the families. Men will travel a lot on journeys to trade and expeditions so they will not often be present in their children's lives. A good portion of their population are people who pledge their lives as nuns and monks. Many people of this culture take up Buddhist ecclesiastical arts, which is painting or iconography. As a reminder, my topic is about food consumption parti...

 The culture I decided to research for this blog post is the Igbo culture of Western Africa. Igbo actually refers to the language that the "Ndi Igbo" speak. Today's Igbo culture is centered in Nigeria and many other countries. The Igbo have one of the highest population densities in Western Africa. The Igbo men are known for their carpentry and the women are known for their pottery and woven clothing. Marriages in this culture are negotiated by the parents for the two people getting married. The Igbo lived in communities called compounds which were a cluster of huts with a central meeting place. As a reminder, my topic is about food consumption particularly eating habits, gratification, and control of hunger. There are many documents describing eating habits of the Igbo including what roles are played in food production and consumption. The best way to describe agriculture in the Igbo culture is that they are subsistence farmers and horticulturalists. They mainly harvest ...