ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Joseph Schumpeter, Creative Destruction, Cargo Cult
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Great magical value assigned to euroamerican goods. Taking religious ideas and melding them with new religious ideas. Big men - important figures who have power to distribute goods. Cargo cult - a big airplane would land and unload powerful euroamerican goods. People believe that if they pray and obey religious doctrines, then the cargo cult could happen. Ghost dance - believed that if they dance together that the white people will eventually go away and move off their land. The land would turn green and the bison would come back. Became a dance that is performed before combat or hostile us army. J. stephen lansing (1991) priests and programmers. Balinese society: each social unit has a temple. Subak - local organization of irrigators sharing a local infrastructure. Sawah agriculture requires a lot of social organization and timing. Irrigation and pest control; wet and dry. Benefits - because they are going through wet and dry cycle, they can control the pests.
