SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Product, Primordialism, Tutsi
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Midterms: roughly 50/50 between mc and essay(apart from final exam, 2nd exam is not cumulative from first exam, final exam: big question that rounds up the overall course. Some groups share same language, culture etc. , but see each other as different. Some groups are internally different(significantly different), but view each other as same: example: rwanda and burundi( hutu and tutsi) Speak the same language, religion, same cults and clans. More of an economic diff, than an identity difference: hutu(farmers), tutsi(cattle owners) These two groups don"t only exist in rwanda. In rwanda: these two groups = very different. In burundi: two groups= viewed as same ethnic group. Belgian colonial power = rwandan kingdom ruled by tutsi king: in rwanda, led to straining of relations between these two groups, further strained by colonial methods(germany and. Belgians also took over burundi, but this particular history didn"t occur: treated the same, but very different effect. Variability depends on political status at that time.
