ANTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African Political Systems, Political Anthropology, Zande People
15 Apr 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture # 2: what is the aim of african political system projects, what do we get out of comparisons, reciprocal relationship (empirical theory and research) In developing systematic frameworks in pre-industrial societies: african political systems: radcliff brown and evans pritchard, known for functionalism, about social systems and social structures to make anthropology of social structure. Radcliff brown: social structure: are arrangements of people and organizations. Structure of people"s activity: can understand a society as independent parts. The continuation of society as a whole depends on each part. Meyers-fortes: kinship, kinship isn"t the same as politics and you can"t reduce kinship to politics. Question # 1: comparison, classification, generalization (goal of project, radcliff brown paradigm, anthropology is working as a comparative analysis of building comp, analysis out of intense fieldwork. Law on the one hand and war on the other i stateless societies.
