Text Authors Flashcards
(History) B. Malinowski - functionalism
Argonauts of the Pacific ; describes how to properly conduct FW/ethnography; Functionalism highlights that every element of a society has function
- on the Trobriand Islands to study Kula ring exchange customs
(History) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown - structural functionalism
Structure and Function in Primitive Societies ; states the most important function of social beliefs / practices is the interconnected maintenance of social order
(History) Fabian
Time and the Other ; Denial of Coevalness- view that contemporary societies are statically interpreted as living in a different time ;
Physical time- chronology, not subject to cultural variation, real dates.
Mundane time- grand-scale periods/ages
Typological time- socioculturally meaningful events or, in other words, intervals between such events (preliterate vs. literate; traditional vs. modern; peasant vs. industrial)
Intersubjective time- emphasis on the communicative nature of human action and interaction. It has to be recognized that time is a constitutive dimension of social reality.
(French Structure) Levi-Strauss structuralism
Tristes Tropiques (1st) & The Savage Mind (2nd) ; argued the ‘savage’ mind has the same structures as ‘civilized’ ; cultures viewed as systems & analyzed in terms of structural relations
influenced by Emile Durkheim - thought precedes human activity and its patterns as cultures & linguistics (Saussure)
- history roles in anthro: Idiographic- est. particular/ factual statements vs.
Nomothetic- arriving at general (theoretical statements)
(Reintroduction of History) E.E. Evans-Pritchard
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(Reintroduction of History) M. Sahlins
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(African Ontology) S. Feierman
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(African Ontology) J. & J. Comaroff
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(Orientalism) Edward Said
Orientalism ;
(Representation) James Clifford
(Representation) Abu-Lughod
(Fem Anthro) M. Rosaldo
(Fem Anthro) Yanagisaco & Collier
(Negritude) L. Senghor
(Negritude) Alicia Garza
