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1002:4.1.1 [2019/10/17 20:29] – [Functionalist explanations of society---You're soaking in them!] Ryan Schram (admin) | 1002:4.1.1 [2019/10/17 20:35] – Ryan Schram (admin) | ||
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* The expectations of preparing particular kinds of school lunches **function to reinforce** cultural expectations for women as members of nuclear families. | * The expectations of preparing particular kinds of school lunches **function to reinforce** cultural expectations for women as members of nuclear families. | ||
* The competitive reciprocal exchanges between big men **function to support** a distinct system of leadership based on big men's networks of followers. | * The competitive reciprocal exchanges between big men **function to support** a distinct system of leadership based on big men's networks of followers. | ||
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Some, like Comaroff and Comaroff (1999), argue that they are not a belief in magic at all, but a diagnosis of the real workings of neoliberal global capitalism in Africa. | Some, like Comaroff and Comaroff (1999), argue that they are not a belief in magic at all, but a diagnosis of the real workings of neoliberal global capitalism in Africa. | ||
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+ | Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. 1999. “Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: | ||
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+ | Evans-Pritchard, | ||
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+ | Fortune, R. F. (1932) 2013. Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge. | ||
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+ | Nadel, S. F. 1952. “Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison.” American Anthropologist 54 (1): 18–29. doi: | ||
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+ | Wilson, Monica Hunter. 1951. “Witch Beliefs and Social Structure.” American Journal of Sociology 56 (4): 307–13. | ||
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