ANTH 0780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cockfight, Zande People, Granary
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Fsee ch 1 of textbook for review of subfields and all that good stuff. Play where the stakes are so high that it seems irrational . Men spend a great deal of time, energy, and money on cockfights but they don"t seem to get much out of it. Deep fights: tend to be between rival groups (us v them) Bets: with kin, kingroup allies, the home (village team), with whom they"re socially closest. Against outsiders or those who they wanna insult. At psu, used to pick up salamanders and dip them in beer and drink the beer with salamander. Culture is intersubjective it"s found between people. Ex: the psu salamander thing wouldn"t work if it was just 1 person. Anthros study meaning, value, and patterns that emerge between people in social situations. It doesn"t have to be intended or conscious. Ex: winking gotta decide whether eye movement is wink, twitch, parody of wink.
