SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Jean Comaroff
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John & jean comaroff: ethnohistorians looking at tswana peoples of southern africa. Interested in missionary who went to tsawana from england to convert them to. Christianity: main works: of revelation & revolution (1991) extremely important work, how non-conformist missionary (under queen elizabeth i, act of conformity - must conform to public book tied to church of england. Non-conformist missionaries pick tswana people to be converted the. Totemic forms of consciousness to ethnic forms of consciousness. In some way or another, ethnicity affected the way they thought about themselves. Totemic forms recognise similarity in difference: veterange - organised in extended family units, through kin groups you get resources, matrilineal descent, e. g. born into a family, but not everyone has a same family, similar in structure, interest etc. If you belong to ethnic group, you = radically different: differences may even be problematic; undesirable; shamed of.
