ANTH 1a Lecture 4: The Nuer
10 Mar 2017
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Controlled by the british for a period of time. No knowledge of the face of the earth the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short . The answer he came to for how do societies persist over time? : The nuer: societies consist of a stable social system of structures. Yemen chronicle: societies consist of politics- tension and change. Structural functionalism: views society as a system consisting of multiple parts that work together towards equilibrium. Society consists of discrete parts: kinship, religious, politics and economy. All parts of this body are in equilibrium. When a herd is large, it gets depleted through marriage, so there is never permanent unequal accumulation. Domestication of herding animals for food production. Usually involves moving animals seasonally to grazing areas. Dung (for fuel, plaster, and medicinal purposes) Urine (for cheese-making and tanning animal skins) Bones and skin for containers and ornaments. Areas of low or irregular rainfall have lots of cattle.
