c. Small corn is similarly adapted to these conditions d. why dont the nuer eat the cows more often? They milk them and bleed them, use their dung as the only source of fuel i1. They eat them at festivals because cows are too big for one family to eat on It's own e. They support big herds for milk and for periodic losses due to catastrophe f. It can be argued that cattle herders strip the land, the cows eat the grass down to the ground g. The Nuer use cows in an economically rational way 5. If we have a pastoral economy, do other qualities follow? a. Pastoral societies are almost al ways patrilineal and patrilocal Groups of men taking care of herd and defending the herds b. Regularities in personality? Touchy subject. Anthropologists no longer like the idea, but L. Certain economies are thought to encourage certain personalities ii. Robert Edgerton-studied 4 east African peoples 1. Within each culture, some of the groups were pastoral and some were agriculturalist a. Framers-value hard work, more cooperative suspicious of one another and hostile b. Herders-individualistic, less likely to suspect others of witch craft, more open and directc. Small corn is similarly adapted to these conditions d. Why don’t the Nuer eat the cows more often? i. They milk them and bleed them, use their dung as the only source of fuel ii. They eat them at festivals because cows are too big for one family to eat on it’s own e. They support big herds for milk and for periodic losses due to catastrophe f. It can be argued that cattle herders strip the land, the cows eat the grass down to the ground g. The Nuer use cows in an economically rational way 5. If we have a pastoral economy, do other qualities follow? a. Pastoral societies are almost always patrilineal and patrilocal i. Groups of men taking care of herd and defending the herds b. Regularities in personality? Touchy subject. Anthropologists no longer like the idea, but: i. Certain economies are thought to encourage certain personalities ii. Robert Edgerton – studied 4 east African peoples 1. Within each culture, some of the groups were pastoral and some were agriculturalist a. Framers – value hard work, more cooperative, suspicious of one another and hostile b. Herders – individualistic, less likely to suspect others of witch craft, more open and direct