SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jean Comaroff, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Clock
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Why is that we live in such interesting times . Ethnohistorians looking at the tswana peoples of southern africa; Interested in how the encounter with the europeans altered both the perspectives of the. Main works: of revelation and revolution(1991, ethnography and the historical imagination(1992) Important to understand that this is kind of an ideology: some form of ethnocentrisms. Primarily interested in the idea of consciousness and how it shifts in the world: movement from totemic consciousness ethnic consciousness, totemic: Item or object that tells an story, embodiment of some characteristic. Totemic forms recognize similarity in difference: ethnicity: treats difference as totalizing and radical. Difference is totalizing, absolute, radical: example: kinship groups. But people are not expected to all belong to the same one. Difference in kin-based societies is merely a representation of similarity. In our own society take the representation of sports teams. Canucks vs flames (hockey: the orca" is a totemic symbol, same as the fire" for calgary.
