ANTH 2051 Chapter : Economic Change
Document Summary
Billows feeding machine represents the fact that the worker is being confined and controlled and those controlling only care about profit, as they don"t get the worker away from the machine even when it goes haywire. Making a point about mechanization and industrialization and that it has a cost that workers and consumers have to pay. He"s treated like an animal and he wasn"t giving formal consent. Movie is about the struggles over economic transformation and time management. Use of the ethnography to look at economic change. 1930"s evans pritchard worked with the nuer (sudan) and his work was updated by sharon. In 1930, there was a proverb that nuer people used cattle and people are one. Allowed to show how a group can change over a certain period of time. Nuer people"s social life and economy were centered around cattle, as well as religious life. No one ever parted with a cow for money; they cared for them.
