ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Ultimate Power, Ethnography
28 Nov 2012
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Interpretation at work which is how culture is made. In some sense it is the same story. Without the law being written it goes to those who live there. Does not say that anyone made a mistake-even though she says the story was a failure. The visit of a government official, an administrative centre will be made in the village-that village will hold the power. Local power operates with an outside power that doesn"t know what it"s doing. Lacking knowledge the government agent had no power over the things he did not know about. He was merely a pawn-in the preservation of their identity. Who has the ultimate power of interpretation-least powerful space-the local. One is assuming that culture explains something-or culture is what has to be explained. Concept of resistance-which people are only described with what is recognizable. Does not account for the way that they use power.
