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- 4.2
- ===== 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
- 13.1
- 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
- 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
- 8.1
- 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
- 2.2
- 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
- module_iv_essay
- 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
- 3.1
- 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
- 4.1
- sive relationship with adults. * There are no societies in which some form of kinship is not recognized. ... d //mater// are positions in a social system. In societies with temporary marriages, * a child is created... ategories of kin, groups of people, structures of societies ===== For many societies, tracing one’s kinship through either a mother or a father locates one in space, a
- 7.2
- ther pro nor anti-immigration. It’s just a rule. Societies like Australia and Denmark need immigrants, becau... lates a theory of society as a total system. All societies have both * **mechanical solidarity**, or a fe... ether. Durkheim was making an argument about how societies work. I am appropriating and reinterpreting his ... phor of nations emphasizes sameness ===== Actual societies are made up of different people but the family me
- 7.1
- t the idea of a nation only comes into being when societies industrialize. * In an industrial, urban socie... guage and one culture emerges in Europe, European societies are imposing a colonial system on peoples of Afri... The absence of a homogenous nation-state in these societies was the justification for their European rule, an... e same—is never achieved in real life. * Actual societies are always made up of different kinds of people,
- 2.1
- be **embedded** in social relationships. In many societies the **embeddedness** of value takes the form of a... Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies//, translated by W. D. Halls, 1–14, 39–46, 78–83.... Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies//. Translated by W. D. Halls. New York: W. W. Nor
- 13.2
- om all others. * Rather than say that different societies have different degrees of culture (a level of ach... lve denying people’s self-knowledge ==== * All societies are a product of a history, but history is a stor... ropology for a better world * ANTH 2624 States, societies, and peoples * ANTH 2623 Genders and sexualitie
- 1.2
- hrough many of the topics this semester is that **societies are based on fictions**. Members of a society liv... an “as if.” Anthropologists ask “what if.” ===== Societies are collective phenomena ===== While anthropolog... * There is no such thing as a society of one. Societies are collectives. [[:Emile Durkheim]] is a foundi
- 9.1
- s reinforce each other. Mary Douglas argues that societies are systems of classifications. * Dirt is not ... t of an identity based on completeness. * Many societies teach people to see their own bodies as sacred, a... ough in different ways. * Hence, people in such societies are invested in the idea that their body is integ
- 12.1
- then the frontier is the limit of that law. Many societies are based on the **myth of the frontier** (Weber ... oo high. **Ulrich Beck has a point. contemporary societies are highly dependent on expert knowledge based in