Comparing Pumé And Arrow-Sharing

Another thing I really liked is how the Pumé do this thing called “arrow-sharing” which is when a person isn’t the best hunter so they make and arrow and give it to someone who is a good hunter. Then that hunter goes out and hunts and uses that arrow and whatever he catches with that arrow the person that claims it is the person who made the arrow. I think this is beautiful because it is people helping out each other and in a way building each other up and making sure everyone succeeds. This also keeps equality among them which they need because they depend on each other to survive and that can’t happen if they are always trying to out win everyone else in the community. They also keep equality amongst themselves by keeping each other humble

The only way I would try this drug is if someone was with me and they weren’t taking the drug so they could take care of me. They also do this other healing process for the elderly where the old person who is in pain or sick they sit on a male member who is very muscular and built. The male then curls them up and holds them and rocks and I think this is so beautiful and pure. For the !Kung a ritual they do is send the boys to participate in Choma which is an initiation ceremony. In the book it says “The only time !Kung boys are deliberately isolated from women is for a few weeks between the ages of fifteen and twenty, when they participate in Choma, the male initiation ceremony. During this intense and rigorous ritual the initiates experience hunger, cold, thirst, and the extreme fatigue that comes from continuous dancing” (Shostak 1981: 239). This happens over six weeks and is considered sacred time because ritual knowledge is being passed down from one generation to the next. This is one way that the Pumé and the !Kung differ in ceremonies, but both are very