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ANTH 1002 | Sociocultural Anthropology
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27th_August.docx-th August Introduction ● Hau= Maori
● Often people represent and take gifts for gods on earth, origins of alms ● Presents mean close relations, but also establish fear, reluctance to speak in Polynesia ● Food in Melanesia: can be considered ‘gift’ of all generations beforehand ● Trade
Sept_12th.docx-Sept 12 th Geertz: Thick Description
○ Nobody ever paid, debt never disappears, so they’d always have a social relationship that doesn’t end. Bride doesn’t have obligations anymore to family. ● Karl Polanyi- Substantivism vs Instrumentalism ● Substantivism= resists the effort to detach
sexes” ● Threat of failure in society tied to lack of virility, fewer wives or children ● Douglas- witchcraft holds society together (functionalist) ● Between strangers in a public, urban space ● Urban life demands “certain indifference” to others, t