ANTH 4051 Chapter : E E Evans Pritchard Reading
Document Summary
Distinctive rhythm of moving backward and forward from village (clieng) to camp (wec) (in response to rain and drought) Concept of seasons derived from social activities rather than from climate change. Seasons are most clearly defined by what controls the movement of people: water, vegetation, movement of fish, cattle needs. There are not units of time between the month and day and night. Count # of sleeps or suns to say when things happened or reference moon. Structural- relations to one another in the social structure. Transitional seasons, rwil- moving from camp to village (middle of march to mid june) part of tot season. Jiom "wind"- north winds, forming early camps (mid sept to mid. "a man"s structural future is already fixed and ordered into diff. periods, total changes in status a boy will undergo in his ordained passage through the social system, if he lives long enough, can be foreseen"
