ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Structural Violence, Community Property, Resource Allocation
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Not every society has insituions recognizable as a government or even makes a disincion between those who govern and those who are governed. The gebusi do not have a government in the way we see government (egalitarian) The kawelka? (making moka: people believe that ongka has strong persuasive skills so they give him the authority, there is a parliament also in power outside of the kawelka village. Early 20th century briish anthropology used as a mechanism of colonialism: administrators and policymakers were interested in how a society was ordered so as to insitute. In colonial encounters in africa: the focus was on three insituions in various. Kinship lineage-a group of people who trace their ancestry to a common individual. Can perform a number of poliical funcions including: joint control of territory, resource allocaion and inheritance, resolve disputes, demand allegiance to the group, form alliances with other groups. Example: nuer in southern sudan (pastoralists) pritchard observed that.
