Anthro. 3: Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology x. liu Fall 2013: MWF: 1-2pm‚ 155 Dwinelle Office Hours: Weds.‚ 2-5pm; 301 Kroeber Hall (Tel.: 2-0705) E-mail: xinliu@berkeley.edu This course introduces anthropological topics in the subfield of social/cultural anthropology‚ with a particular aim for students to learn a lesson about the idea of culture and its relevance for our global struggles today. For such a goal to be achieved‚ there is no way for us to avoid a historical perspective
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Punishable By Jail Time under Proposed Criminal Law‚ the Huffington Post. Westermarck Edvard‚ 1922‚ The History of Human Marriage. Oppenheimer Helen‚ 1990‚ Marriage‚ British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. E.E.Evans Pritchard‚ 1990‚ Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer‚ Clarendon Press. Askham Janet‚ 1984‚ Identity and Stability in Marriage‚ Cambridge University Press. Macfarlane Alan‚ 1986‚ Marriage and Love in England: modes of reproduction‚ 1300-1840‚ Blackwell. Mount Ferdinand‚ 1992‚ the
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throughout their worldviews. Ellwood begins by telling us that “The indigenous religious traditions had no developed writing systems‚ so they transmitted their way of life from one generation to the next through art‚ myth and dance.”1 Evans-Pritchard introduces us to the Nuer‚ a cattle-herding people dwelling in the Nilotic Sudan. Like most ethnic religions‚ their beliefs are passed down through numerous rituals.2 Depending on the significance of the rituals it may be accompanied by dance‚ music and story-telling
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Additionally‚ perspective kinship in this case serves to create an enduring economic bond since Maria’s parents and Ignacio are already engaged in material relations. Kinship in Kaqchikel appears not to be primarily political as Evans Pritchard observed among the Nuer but economic and material. Once the plans for marriage were challenged‚ Maria’s parents got afraid of losing the job on Ignacio’s plantation. The beliefs on the strong connection between humans and nature is represented in the bathroom
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39–40. 4. Conrad‚ K. (2010) "Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity." McGraw Hill. Pg. 64 5 7. Erickson‚ P.A and Murphy‚ L.D (2013). A History of Anthropological Theory. 4th ed. University of Toronto Press. p72-80. 8. Evans-Pritchard‚ E.E (1940). "The Nuer of the Southern Sudan". London: Oxford University Press. 9 10. Goudsmit‚ S (1966). Time. Time inc. 11 12. Kearl‚ M and Gordon‚ C (1991). Social Psychology: Shaping Identity‚ Thought and Conduct. Allyn & Bacon. 13 14. Levine‚ R (2008)
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’ubiquitous’ (Evans-Pritchard‚ 18)‚ it is ever present in all aspects of their life‚ from ’fishing’ to their ’technology and language’ (Evans-Pritchard‚ 18). Evans-Pritchard explores the affect witchcraft holds over the sub Saharan tribe of Zande. In the reading he comes up with two purposes that witchcraft hold in society. The first one being the "relation between men and unfortunate events" (Evans-Pritchard‚ 18) and the second one is the belief that it "regulates human conduct" (Evans-Pritchard‚ 18). These
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natural instincts‚ it does so because civilized men have come to the conclusion that the satisfaction of these natural instincts is detrimental to the general interests of society. "Nuer say that marriage to persons standing in certain relationships is forbidden because it is rual‚ incestuous‚" but E. E. Evans-Pritchard argued that "we may reverse this statement and say that sexual relations with persons standing in these relationships are considered incestuous because it would be a breach of the marriage
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Time in the Black Experience Recent Titles in Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community Kevin E. Early State against Development: The Experience of Post-1965 Zaire Mondonga M. Mokoli Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress Jo A. Tanner Language and Literature in the African American Imagination Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay‚ editor Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison ’s Fiction Edith Schor The Early Black
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In cultural anthropology and sociology‚ reciprocity refers to non-market exchange of goods and labour; that is‚ "gift economic systems". It is the basis of most non-market economies. The concept was key to the debate between early anthropologists Bronislaw Malinowski and Marcel Mauss on the meaning of "Kula exchange" in the Trobriand Islands off Papua New Guinea during the First World War.[1] Malinowski used Kula exchange to demonstrate the apparently random gift-giving was in fact a key political
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Lecture 3: Structural functionalism Structural functionalism – Radcliffe-Brown Anthropology is a natural science Radcliffe-Brown was one of the main figures of the structural functionalist school of British anthropology. He viewed anthropology as a natural science‚ similar in essence to the physical and biological sciences. The object of natural science was to investigate the structure of the universe. Social phenomena constitute a distinct class of natural phenomena‚ and social structures
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