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The Chewa Tribe

By: Isabel Chiriboga and Victor Quinones

KQs

KQ: In what ways is living like Leavers and promoting diversity vital for the preservation of the world?

Key Terms

Leavers: "formed cultures that thrived for thousands of years before the agricultural revolution hunters and gatherers, herders, indigenous societies. Those cultures lived lightly and took only what they needed." (Ishmael)

Promoting: to contribute to the growth or prosperity.

Diversity: the condition of having or being composed of differing elements, the inclusion of different types of people (such as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization

Vital: of the utmost importance.

Preservation: to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction

Important Key Terms

  • To what extent can a human being live isolated from the rest of the society?
  • In what way do leavers contribute to the world as a whole?
  • In what ways can leavers contribute in the diversity of the world if they cease to be part of society?

Subsidiary KQ's.

Knowledge Framework

Knowldge System

Part 1

Traditions and Beliefs:

  • Nyau Tradition
  • Mbona Folklore
  • Christianity

Food:

  • Hunters and gatherers.
  • nsima and ndiwo: based on vegetables and beans.
  • roasted cassava, roasted corn, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, or wild fruits. Even wild insects: roasted grasshoppers, flying termites, and caterpillar skins.

Clothing

Clothing

Clothing

  • In urban areas, women usually wear a skirt and a blouse or a colorful dress. In rural areas, women commonly wear a loincloth tied around the waist, and a blouse. Men wear pants, shirts and shorts.

Education

Children are provided free education excluding uniforms, books, pens, paper, and other school supplies.

Within rural schools the qualifications of teachers varies, with a recent emphasis on promoting a requirement for all teachers to be college educated. A majority of Chewa girls and boys participate in school activities when they are not involved in other activities.

Shelter

Shelter

The majority of the Chewa live in rural areas with little access to health care facilities, schools, or electricity.

Types of housing are determined by location and the availability of building materials. Huts are either circular or oblong with woven-stick walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch.

Family

  • The Chewa have a matrilineal kinship system. This means that inheritances are passed down through the female line.
  • Fertility rates are very high.
  • Divorce is quite common. Polygyny, the practice of having more than one wife, used to be common.

Language

Part 2

  • Nyanja is the main language
  • Language is a key tool for communication and specially to generate shared knowledge. It is through language that the chewa people are able to teach their children about their culture. Simply their language is part of their identity of who they really are.

Methodology

Methodology

Matrilineal Society

  • Land is distributed by a village headman, who decided how to divide the land amongst all people in the village. Marriages, births and deaths of people of the community change the land distribution.
  • Land could be completely owned by a family or it might be shared with others. even if owning more land equals status, it needs more working to be done in it. For this, people typically hire the "Ganyu," or informal workers.
  • It is also a method by which the Chewa community has acquired great “interdependency” and unity within the communities. Unlike Mother cultures societies, where profit is always seen as the main purpose of work, in Chewa communities work is seen as a collaborative effort to succeed as a group, not as individuals.

Historical Development

Part 3

In the Chewa community, accounting for 34.1% of the countries population of Malawi,in Eastern Africa. Malawi was part on the commonwealth of nations under British control until 1964.

  • language.
  • free education.
  • government.
  • agriculture.

The Self

The Self

Connection to Self

Nature World

Connection to Self

RLS

Tribe Practice

A Nyau is part of the Chewa traditional culture, they are young men from a village who dress up and participate in funerals and other traditional rituals and village ceremonies. They are typically dressed to represent an animal. They are self-selected for this role in the village.The main role of the Nyau is to carry the dead into the forest where Malawians have graveyards. They are the ones that can enter the graveyard areas where there might be evil spirits. Children are very afraid of Nyau because of their association with evil spirits. Typically, the Nyau dancers are aggressive, loud, and rambunctious. When there is a Nyau in a village, the children run to their huts.

RLS

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YO2v0OsHP8

KQ Answer

KQ Answer

In order for the world to function there must be a balance between its people. In this case between the takers and the leavers, takers are for the most part the destruction of the world while leavers are the world saviors. Therefore it is extremely important to learn to live like a leaver because it is the only way we takers can stop being egocentric and start looking and the entire picture by acquiring knowledge of the way different cultures live. Without leavers, who are the servers of nature, there would be no preservation of the world, just destruction that is incredibly dangerous. Every single person and every single life is unique and different from one another in our world. They each have a different background, a different story and a different perspective. This is what makes the world so exciting to live in. Imagine a world where everyone thinks the same way and therefore acts the same way; there would be no place for innovation or growth. Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself a community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of total global catastrophe. Therefore without diversity there is no survival, therefore it is absolutely vital for the world.

MLA Citations

MLA CITATIONS

Gough, Amy. “CHEWA TRIBE .” Indigenous Peoples of the World — The Chewa, www.peoplesoftheworld.org/hosted/chewa/.

“Malawi Culture.” Malawi Culture: Tribes, Language, Dress and More Experience Malawi, www.experiencemalawi.com/culture.html.

“Chewa.” Yaden Africa - African Clothing African Jewelry African Artwork, yaden-africa.com/the-culture/tribes/chewa.

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “Chewa.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1 June 2017, www.britannica.com/topic/Chewa-people.

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