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  1. Mar 2016
    1. Dat's de reason de sister in black works harder than anybody else in de world. De white man tells de nigger to work and he takes and tells his wife.

      This kind of reminds me of the story of Pandoras box, however it relays something good for the omens curiosity for opening the box and seeing why everyone was struggling. This also as an example of the stroeotypes about African Americans we talk about on monday

    1. This concept of a low energy culture is a very imprecise one, difficult to define, and impossible to calibrat

      why label a society as low energy if is is never actually spot on and very hard to actually label?

    2. Since the norm only prohibits sexual intercourse between the parents of a child, and is not a general prohibition on intercourse for them as individuals, there were several men and one woman who were parents of half-siblings only a couple of years apart in age

      a little confused: so its socially frowned upon to have sex with your husband after you have a child within a 5 year span, but more accpectable if that same mother does and has another child with someone other than her husband, producing a half sibling ?

    3. nt Dani men have told me that the parents of a child refrain from sexual intercourse with each other from the time when the child is born until the child is about five years old.

      waiting for child to be less dependent of parents ? especially of sex doesnt have the the intmacy, therefore not all the necessary for the Dani

    4. demonstrate 'an extraordinarily low level' of sexuality, it does not support a general proposition that the sexuality of cultures can be calibrated on a scale. Rather, I would suggest that most cultures have fairly similar levels of sexuality (expressed, of course, in a myriad of ways) and that it would serve no purpose to try to rank them in terms of precise levels of sexualit

      i feel as if the author is just deeming the Dani as having no type of sexuality all, when the case is there society just has a very low presence of it, especally since we view sexualltiy in a certain way. Meaning they my think something shows the same intmacy and sexuality as the act of having sex