ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Ulf Hannerz, Marinara Sauce, Sidney Mintz
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Creolizaion theory 1: rapid early synthesis: sidney mintz and richard price, the birth of african-american culture (1976) Creolizaion started on slave ships and was most intense in areas of escaped slaves- could preserve african elements in their cultures and daily pracices. Many problems with this model implies that creolizaion eventually stopped; creolizaion happened and then everything stayed the same, but this isn"t true since culture is. Nigerians going to cuba and bringing stuf back and cubans going to nigeria and bringing stuf back: acive engagement and transformaion; santa ria is constantly being reinvented. Structured by power on plantaions (very speciic type of power) Race played a key role - made hybridizaion possible. Topics discussed in this class: anthropology history and methods, structures of power: The poeics of violence: power and historical narraives, language, art, music: peircian semioics, cultural hybridizaion and creolizaion, cultural construcion of medicine, religion, global economy, migraion and ciizenship, the materiality of the social.
