DTS200Y1 Lecture : Indignity and Diaspora
20 Apr 2013
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From achebe"s arrow of god (work of fiction) what we can take out of the chapter: the confederate foundations of umuaro (collection of villages) and the acephalous form of political leadership. Confederation made up of different tribal groups with different authorities. Acephalous means they don"t have heads, kings, or chiefs. The governments are done through a collection of tribal heads therefore the government is based on consensus, But, once a society is acephalous the way that they negotiate conflict are different than top down societies: the incorporation of the landscape: market and river landscape is spiritually incorporated into the world. The landscape is invested with spiritual content: this is and example of aboriginal societies. Ex: canada- landscape is something other than human passages. This is important because it is a shift from the european society: europe- landscape is empty, but in aboriginal societies this is, the internal dynamic for leadership selection not the case.
