ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Structural Functionalism
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Time is what ties all these institutions together. Time is relative to what he calls structural space locally considered. People refer to time based on what is important. The first way of measuring time is ritual time through a social 9not natural) system, birth, age sets, marriage, death, ritual. Historical time the big things that have happened since you were born that marks your generation (cogniscent of history) for example: the bombing of the twin towers. History that is most important to someone is caused by social memory. In the nuer you take the oldest living memory of your grandparents and the living memory that exists is the belief of the whole community. The nuer do it the notion of age-sets the transition to manhood, it"s a ritual where your forehead is marked, they are also given a name that is relevant to an important event of that year.
