Anthropology Overview

"The primitive world was able to achieve a harmony, unstable at times, between the needs of the individual and the requirements of community. The problem of order, responsibility and integrity were solved with the problem of bread." -Thomas Belmonte The Broken Fountain, Belmonte's book on urban Naples is a prime example of a society struggling to defeat the problem of "bread". "Bread" being used here as a metaphor for the necessities of life. A society …

…essential elements of survival, definatly effects a societies inhabilities to function as a whole. The lack of bread can drive people to curroption in despirate times. This is evident in urban Napoles. The lack of bread in the Kalahari desert has brought their socie ty together to struggle as a whole rather that individual competition. The key here is to overcome eachothers differences in a society and work together to create a harmonious social life.