ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Banana Leaf, Participant Observation, Trobriand Islands
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Anthro 2a notes 2/14/14: leadership, influence, and authority, headman, bigman: certain kinds of institution like moka. Bigmen that run parts of the society: chief: Kinship: chief are chiefs over only their clan, not over other clans. Diversity: ascribed status, or achieved like president of the us. It may be a single person or maybe a whole group. Authority over all in territory: they have ahtority over everyone in there area. Obama over us: constrasting leaders and their capacity to mobilize labor. Ii) anthropological fieldwork: anthropologists use many methods of data collection, ethnography: go some place and learn with people for awhile and live in their context. Iii) why learn about the trobrianders: matriliny v. patriliny and valuation of women. One child per couple policy: people would abort the girls and try and get a boy: in 2011 there was 113 for every 1000 girls, children under 15 years old: 117 boys for every 100 girls.
