ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Generalized Forces, Zande People
31 Aug 2020
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Anthropology starts to dwindle down in 1920s/1930s. Interested in the ways in which traditions help maintain social cohesion and social stability (like malinowski) Builds on malinowski but also looks at the levels of societies. When society develops a tradition, how does it keep it up in maintaining society together. Recall: a symbiotic relationship between anthropology and colonialism. Colonial conquest and control africa up to ethnographic researchers, leading to important changes in anthropological theory. During the interwar years (1919-1939), deepening of colonial control, which helps facilitate greater access by anthropologists. Systems are composed of social institutions and laws developed in order to achieve social stability: they"re more interested in stability, not how things change, allow people to keep living in the same way that they have. Constructs idealized, timeless versions of tribal societies, doesn"t account for social change. Doesn"t account for complexities of belonging/identity (everything determined by one"s. Western beliefs and institutions seen as universal, tribal systems are particular .
