ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Arecaceae
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Lecture 1 intro to core concepts in social and cultural anthropology. British colonization of parts of africa (papa new guinea) introduces game of cricket: enforced to change morals, activities, tendencies of separate villages, villagers take over the game, make in their own. Becomes an enthusiastic pass-time played with international rules, regulations, clothing, etc. Amongst trobriand tribes, cricket has undergone a cultural transformation: now includes chanting, dances, different equipment, etc. Gilmour (missionary) first to introduce cricket to trobriand. Mission games introduced as a substitute for warfare and way of unifying separate villages: villagers vs. converts. As cricket spread to other villages, rules changed to adapt larger teams: uniforms of the game became warfare equipment. Villagers hand carve/cleave cricket bats out of light, hard wood with curves at hitting end. Bats are decorated by villagers, undecorated bats are frowned upon: referred to as magic/special magic, helps prepare a player"s arms for throwing and hitting, decorated in war colours of black and white.
