Sex and culture [electronic resource] by Unwin J. D. (Joseph Daniel) 1895-1936. & Unwin J. D. (Joseph Daniel) 1895-1936

Author:Unwin, J. D. (Joseph Daniel), 1895-1936. & Unwin, J. D. (Joseph Daniel), 1895-1936
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Primitive societies, Sexual ethics, Sex, Culture
Publisher: London : Oxford university press, H. Milford
Published: 1934-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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N.B. These diagrams are intentionally over-simplified. Actually the divisions between the strata (or belts) are never rigid and defined, as they appear, but loose and undefined.

A human society is a dynamic unit, but it may be an inert, inactive one. If it is active, as generation succeeds generation individual persons continually leave the stratum (or belt) into which they were introduced as babes, and join another. After two generations a stratum (or belt) may disappear. Alternatively, a new one may be created.

If a society comes within the field of force of another and more energetic society, its cultural state may be warped and distorted. See para. 174.

The diagrams only reveal the cultural patterns. Within the patterns there is an intense variety. Culture-contact increases this variety.

erected over their graves. Similar huts are erected in a place where the power in the universe is manifest. It is not the custom for zoistic societies to do these things, and by behaving in this manner the individuals responsible for the innovations separate themselves from their zoistic brethren, and form a manistic belt around the zoistic nucleus (Fig. B).

The cultural state of the society can also be represented by a manistic cone, with a level zoistic base (Fig. B). The Akamba, Lango, and Wayao (paras. 149-51, 163) were in this condition.

Under the influence of further energy the manistic individuals begin to lose their faith in unassisted magic, and to request the aid of a powerful ghost whenever they embark on some dangerous, unaccustomed, or important enterprise. They also decorate their sacred places more elaborately; and soon a cult of the powerful dead is established. The SE. Solomon Islanders were in this condition (paras. 151, 152, 163). Moreover, an increased number of individuals leave the zoistic nucleus and join the manistic belt; and the dead are no longer replaced in popular favour by those whose mortal exploits are greener in living memory. The cult of some powerful ghosts is handed on from generation to generation. The Shilluk were in this condition (paras. 151, 152, 163).

If the pre-nuptial sexual impulses of the females are not satisfied at all, still greater energy is produced. Then the huts over the graves, and in other sacred places, assume the dignity of temples; and to uprising generations the powers manifest therein appear as gods who have charge of all human and natural activities, and rule them in an arbitrary and personal manner.

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