ANTH 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Max Gluckman, Totem, Code-Switching
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Explicate: analyze and develop and idea or principle in detail. Propitiate: win or regain the favor by doing something that pleases. Amalgamation: the action, process, or result of combining or uniting. They define themselves differently depending on who you"re talking to. They"re in opposition to one another, nested sets of identity. It depends which identity you have which set you use to describe yourself. Similar to the idea of totemism if they have totems. Sequential hierarchy- order of precedence based on the paradigm of the individual. You start small and you keep getting bigger and more encompassing until everyone is included. This is what braun says has experienced the phenomena of convergence. It allows you to navigate different social settings and adapt to them. Braun"s example of convergence and biological limits is nested sets of identity- the linguistic way to talk about this is the situational negotiation of identity.
