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Transcript of ANTH326 Meeting 4
- 1. ANTH326 Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Meeting 4, Social Structure September 29, 2010
2. Project 3. Related References
- Grinker, Lubkemann, and Steiner
4. How to Write about Africa
- http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-About-Africa
5. Binyavanga Wainaina Ma famille
- Ivoirian series
6. Tou.tv until October 4 7. http://www.tou.tv/ma-famille 8. Africa as Mirror
- Define Western by contrast
9. Similar to Orientalism 10. The go-to Other 11. Nostalgia 12. Stigmatization 13. "Third World" 14. Impossible to generalize
- Unusual cases
15. Catalogue 16. Contrasting cases within Africa 17. Contrast with alleged reader's notions 18. Particular to broader 19. McCall 20. Approach
- Playing with narrative
- Start with striking
21. Contextualize What colonial administrators missed 22. What colonial administrators created 23. Intro to Culture
- Kinship/household
24. Cultural relativism and polygyny 25. Corporate ownership 26. Gerontocracy 27. Caste-like stratification 28. Infrastructure
- Modes of production and reproduction
29. Agrarian by default 30. Market 31. Structure
- Authority
32. Joking relationships 33. Solidarity 34. Sodalities
- Age sets/grades
35. Cohorts 36. Institutionalized Gender 37. Southall 38. "Tribal"
- Preconceptions
39. Technical definition 40. A posteriori definition 41. Defining Groups
- Core part of social science
42. Group construction 43. Impact of outside definitions 44. Allegiance 45. Language (Herder) 46. Negotiated boundaries
- Barth
47. Constructed Groups
- Widespread
- Even found in Europe
Divide and conquer 48. United we stand 49. Necessary in context 50. Primary identity 51. Causing wars 52. Solution in ethnic groups? 53. Complexity
- Layered identities
54. Fluidity
- Changes in identity
55. Urban/rural 56. Social networks 57. Modernity
- Modern Africa
58. Associated to colonialism 59. Different from Westernization 60. Nationalism 61. Individualism 62. Contemporary Africa
- Modern
63. Young 64. Diverse 65. States in Africa
- Long history
- Kingdoms and Empires
Next to small-scale groups 66. Embed small-scale groups 67. Nation-states
- Somali as textbook case