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- 7.1 @1002:2018
- are the main differences between rural and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This cla... of conjuncture of cultures and orders. * Fluid. Societies are produced through their interactions with othe... e-world * Defined by unintended side-effects. All societies are changing all the time, but change goes in dif... than one kind of modernity. Specifically, * All societies change, but not all societies end up being the sa
- 4.2 @1002:2024
- ===== Lévi-Strauss ([1949] 1969) notes that all societies prohibit “incest” (marriage of relatives), but wh... eople to have kinship classifications? ==== Many societies also have this kind of bias when they describe th... ple talk about kinship ===== In fact, many other societies have forms of kinship that have nothing to do wit... 1, 108–9; see also O’Brien 1977; Krige 1974). * Societies like Kawelka consist of small groups of people wh
- 2.2 @1002:2018
- nd systems like this continue to function in many societies around the world. This practice of giving and rec... -big-moka.html. ## Classical Anthropology ## * Societies are wholes which are greater than the sum of their parts. * Societies have boundaries and structure which maintain orde... y is everywhere ## Gift economies are not simply societies in which there's a lot of gifts. A gift economy i
- 13.1 @1002:2024
- y of society. * What is most interesting about societies is that they tend to stay the same. We should ask... brother in many different, unrelated patrilineal societies (Radcliffe-Brown [1924] 1952). * Although not a... 5] 1952, 181). * Unlike an individual animal, societies can and sometimes do become something totally new... the old one. - An organism lives and then dies. Societies don’t have to die (Radcliffe-Brown [1935] 1952, 1
- 8.2 @1002:2024
- ristianity into a truly global religion. In many societies which were once under colonial influence, the wor... ies is strictly controlled, or even banned. Many societies also regulate religion in specific other ways. ... of religion make it hard to understand how other societies relate to religion. Christianity shapes the way ... mples of how many scholars have thought about how societies change. * Many scholars think that all societi
- 3.1 @1002:2018
- reciprocate. * The gift has obligations because societies are more than the some of their parts. A society ... le who are interdependent on each other. * **All societies in some way impose the three obligations of recip... a very useful lens for understanding contemporary societies. This week, I'd like to develop these three ideas... w people understand new ways of exchange. * Many societies opt for 'develop-man' instead of 'development'.
- 5.1 @1002:2018
- o such thing as [[:modernity|modernity]]. * All societies change all the time, but no two societies end up in the same place. * Societies cannot be ranked on scale of progress. * Global capitalism needs there to be a diversity of kinds of societies. Maimafu, Kabre, Kawelka are needed to make it po
- 8.1 @1002:2024
- hings are examples of a dysfunction or disease in societies that prevents its members from participating in p... rently. Is this a problem? ===== Like many other societies, Azande people in South Sudan say that every bad ... citizenship are based on beliefs, too ===== Many societies call themselves modern, and they say that they or... traditional ideas and cultural biases. But these societies are, like all societies, based on social fictions
- module_iv_essay @1002:2024
- igenous peoples are “closer to nature” than other societies and that Indigenous societies always regard nature as sacred (Wasserman 1994, 98; see also Graham 2020; Bros... ideas of scholars who argue that some Indigenous societies do have a unique orientation toward their own nat... so argue that the capitalist economies of settler societies interfere with Indigenous ways of relating to and
- 2022 @1002:2022
- | | |\\ | **9** | **Managing diversity in plural societies** | Gowricharn (2015); Eriksen (1997) | Eriksen (... 0** | **Migration and multiculturalism in Western societies** | Vertovec (2007) | Rex (1996); Taussig (1991) ... ms from an Indigenous Perspective.” In //Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value//, edited by Howard Mor... torship: Indigenous perspectives in post-colonial societies—Proceedings//, 18–22. Ottawa: Published by the Ca
- 8.1 @1002:2018
- ner, there is a formal parallel between them. The societies are changing in different ways, but the process o... e **multiple modernities** thesis states: * All societies change, but societies do not all eventually end up at the same destination. * Social change cannot be meas... only one? What makes it different? ## Do secular societies have a 'sacred'? What are the distinctive cultu
- 2.2 @1002:2024
- f total services ===== Mauss argues that in most societies, exchanges take the form of gifts, and gifts come... be **embedded** in social relationships. In many societies the **embeddedness** of value takes the form of a... = This might sound like a simple dichotomy: - societies based on gifts, reciprocity, and a system of total services; - capitalist societies based on commodity production and consumption. I
- 3.1 @1002:2024
- ed but, in the real world, there are no pure gift societies and capitalist societies. * A society is a system of total services in essence, even if people don’t see it. * All societies are today part of a global capitalist system, so ... some kinds of exchange are illegal. * In many societies, mothers offer the service of breastfeeding to ea
- 5.2 @1002:2022
- ===== Lévi-Strauss ([1949] 1969) notes that all societies prohibit “incest” (marriage of relatives), but wh... e to have kinship classifications? In fact, many societies have forms of kinship that have nothing to do wit... 1, 108–9; see also O’Brien 1977; Krige 1974). * Societies like Kawelka consist of small groups of people wh... od of the group’s land (Strathern 1973). In many societies people speak of kinship as a natural fact in thei
- 1.2 @1002:2018
- elps us to understand what happens when different societies influence each other, and how people in different... larger social context as part of a system. * **Societies are not fixed or inflexible.** Social rules are n... social system fit together in functional ways. * Societies have boundaries and order. * The purpose of anthr... used by colonial administrations to govern native societies. * Australian anthropology viewed indigenous soci