inspired by Wittgenstein‚ who had questioned the very idea of a social science‚ reflecting upon and‚ indeed‚ criticizing the interpretation of witchcraft in one of the classics of twentieth-century anthropology‚ Evans-Pritchard ’s Witchcraft‚ Oracles and Magic among the Azande (Evans-Pritchard‚ 1937). I propose here to return to Winch ’s questions and to assess his answer through a consideration of a current far-reaching dispute between two anthropologists‚ Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere
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The movie "The Dead Poets Society" is about a group of private school boys in the North East. They encounter a teacher‚ Mr. Keating‚ whom is a little different than most teachers. He wanted to instill the motivation to look past what society was telling them to do rather than teach the normal curriculum. He used Thoreau’s ideas on transcendentalism by showing them to transcend or go beyond the rules that society poses and create their own independence. Mr. Keating succeeded in his efforts by teaching
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s article titled Einstein was right – honey bee collapse threatens global food security‚ it is almost unbelievable that people don’t understand how much honey bees effect our lives. It’s not just about sweet things‚ honey‚ or flowers‚ but in the service honey bees provide as pollinators of farms and gardens. Most people do not understand the multiple crises facing the bee population that continue to empty the hives. In his discussion of the honey bee collapse‚ Pritchard notes
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child. After Tiv women give birth to a child‚ the mother is marked with a scar on her abdomen in order to represent womanhood. This practice reminded me of the right of passage with the Nuer. At puberty‚ the young Nuer men receive facial markings called ghar marks that scar a boy’s forehead (Class Film Clip: “Nuer”). Nuer women‚ on the other hand‚ celebrate a woman’s adulthood when a women gets married‚ yet they do not have a scarification for doing so. While scars symbolize a right of passage or represent
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3 FIELDWORK AND ITS INTERPRETATION Theory without data is empty‚ but data without theory are blind. — C. Wright Mills FIELDWORK Anthropology distinguishes itself from the other social sciences through the great emphasis placed on ethnographic fieldwork as the most important source of new knowledge about society and culture. A field study may last for a few months ‚ a year‚ or even two years or more‚ and it aims at developing as intimate an understanding as possible of the phenomena investigated
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References: Evans-Pritchard‚ E. E. The Azande: History and Political Institutions. Oxford‚ England: Clarendon Press‚ 1971. http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Azande.html. (Retrieved on the web from everyculture.com on 2/5/2012) http://www.gurtong
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north are the Kababish‚ a camel raising people; the Jaalin and Saiqiyya‚ who live along rivers ; the Nubians‚ who live along the northern Nile; the Nuba of the Kordufan Plateau; and the Fur in the west. In the south there is the Dinka‚ Anuak‚ Nuer‚ and Shilluck. The official language of Sudan is Arabic. Its religious breakdown is 73% Islamic‚ 17%‚ Sudan is the largest country in Africa‚ and is one of the poorest. It is located in the northeastern part of the continent. It is mainly made
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sororate‚ the Nuer do have this option‚ but only if the dead wife did not have a child (Stone‚ 77; 2014). In regards to marriage‚ the Tiv culture allows both men and women to get married. The Tiv culture has no law that restrain anyone from getting married earlier than 25 to 30 years of age. The Tiv are polygynous‚ thereby allowing men to have multiple wives (Hsu‚ 47; 1971). While having multiple wives may be rather difficult for a man due the struggle of maintaing equality between the women‚ most
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Article The Australian Financial Review. 2013‚ ‘Tesco to form venture with Chinese retail giant’‚ The Australian Financial Review‚ 2 October‚ viewed 4 October 2013‚ Summary According to the Australian Financial Review (2013)‚ Tesco has agreed to form a 20/80 joint venture with China Resource Enterprises. This initiative occurs in the light of the declining retail environment in Europe and aims to combine Tesco’s 134 Chinese branches with 2‚986 outlets from the China Resources Vanguard business
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Sudan separated from north Sudan and became independent in July 2011. The government is composed of President Salva Kiir‚ from the Dinka tribe‚ Vice President Riek Machar‚ from the Nuer tribe‚ and high officials from a number of other tribes. South Sudan has a long history of ethnic tensions between Dinka and Nuer‚ the two largest tribes. When South Sudan was fighting for independence‚ all tribes set their differences apart. But independence didn’t necessarily bring with it a sense of belonging
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