ANTH 322 Midterm: Midterm Review.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 322
• Professor: Maria Sapignoli

Document Summary

Week 5. b) midterm summary how to write an essay-style response: essay writing. Intro, argument, paragraph/point a, paragraph/point b, paragraph/point c, conclusion: organize thoughts before you start talking, ferguson, comarroff, mind map, outline. 19th century colonialism, then tribalism afro-optimism, and afro-pessimism, invented traditions. Week 2: anthropology and anthropologists in africa (french, british, america) (ex: malinowski, Moore evolutionary approach & functionalist approach, looking at societ as frozen in time not considering social relationship between groups, but groups as units: manchester school (interested in study of social change) and rhodes livingstone. Gluckman: go against white local sector vision of africans as tribesmen, africa populated with europeans, americans = racism, come to town but still tribesman, gluckman: an african miner is a miner, an. African townmen in a townmen = incorporating chracteristics typical of miner = push this against stereotypes at the time: manchester: social change, relationship between rural and urban, remained in.