ANTH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Roy Rappaport, Marvin Harris, Emic And Etic
Document Summary
Environmental ecological system (continued from february 15 doc) The question of rationality : explaining the potlatch, megalomania of status-mad chiefs, redistribution of patchy resources, we look at the west as being super rich but not always. Environmentally patchy makes sense because redistribution of food to those who might not have enough food to survive: effect of contact and conquest, effects on local economic systems, potlatch banned in 1884, decriminalized in 1951. Pigs for the ancestors roy rappaport: the tsembaga of papa new guinea and their pigs, pigs are seldom eaten, serve other functions, keep residence clean, prepare soil for planting, pigs require minimum maintenance. Ritual regulation: elaborate ritual system, once triggered, pigs are slaughtered and feasts held. 3: effects, pigs herds decreased, conflict averted, social relations eased, needed protein. The tsembaga model too many pigs, there is a ritual trigger, they call get killed so the people can eat.
