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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 5.2 @1002:2018
- on of capitalism does not mean that once isolated societies become integrated into a single global system. We... morality of economic activity ## One of the ways societies respond to market forces is by placing limits on ... rn "bitter money" (Shipton 1989) Market-driven societies also place some kind of moral limit on profit as ... ues which contrast with those found in gift-based societies. ## Dichotomous thinking ## An either-or disti
- 5.1 @1002:2022
- p with adults over many years. * 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
- 4.2.2 @1002:2019
- On Monday we discussed a basic paradox that all societies face: People are mortal, but societies are immortal. When a person dies, society as a whole has to act in or... . * There is a fundamental contradiction in all societies between the social totality and the material worl... ice * Contradictions that emerge in history, when societies interact and influence each other. * Societies
- 3.1.2 @1002:2019
- ity is not something that one only finds in a few societies. Even societies which have created the possibility of individualism, for instance "the West," also exchange ... bligations are still present in some way in these societies because, as Mauss argues, reciprocity itself is f... ne is part of a system of total services. Yet all societies at some level are systems of total services, even
- 9.2 @1002:2022
- JS~~ ====== Week 9: Managing diversity in plural societies ====== ===== Week 9: Managing diversity in plural societies ===== Leo Couacaud\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropology in ... charn, Ruben. 2015. “Creole Hegemony in Caribbean Societies: The Case of Suriname: Creole Hegemony in Caribbean Societies: The Case of Suriname.” //Studies in Ethnicity an
- 9.1 @1002:2022
- JS~~ ====== Week 9: Managing diversity in plural societies ====== ===== Week 9: Managing diversity in plural societies ===== Leo Couacaud\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropology in ... charn, Ruben. 2015. “Creole Hegemony in Caribbean Societies: The Case of Suriname: Creole Hegemony in Caribbean Societies: The Case of Suriname.” //Studies in Ethnicity an
- 2.2 @1002:2022
- s everywhere ===== Gift economies are not simply societies in which there’s a lot of gifts. A gift economy i... reciprocity is a “total social phenomenon.” Even societies which have created the possibility of individuali... 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