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Sept 17th Dadi’s Family ● Large family, oldest couple manages, less power, though, than in Dadi’s time ● Family Unit: couple, sons, daughters-in-law, grandkids ● Family= male unit, like Bedouins- family ● “Home” (where important things are), having a daughter appreciates giving away ● Women’s rights, voices have improved, can criticize, but still depe

ANTH | 1002 | Sociocultural  Anthropology | Sept 17th Dadi’s Family ● Larg

● Objects, disjointed words, last attachment to the possibility of doing something, caring to have something or someone ● Photographs ‘make real’ matters that the privileged choose to, or just unconsciously, ignore, however (Kleinman) globalization of such images commodifies and distorts meaning, thins out, idea to ‘understand’ and ‘hope’ ● ‘Useles

ANTH | 1002 | Sociocultural  Anthropology | ● Objects  disjointed words  l

Sept 5 Betwixt and Beyond- Victor Turner ● State= any type of stable/recurrent culturally recognized condition ● Rite de Passage= rituals that accompany any change of state (age, place, social position etc)- subject detached from preceding state, in liminal state, then settled in new state ● Separation -> incorporation -> reaggregation ● Levi-Strauss

ANTH | 1002 | Sociocultural  Anthropology | Sept 5 Betwixt and Beyond- Vic

Sept_10.docx-Sept 10 Mary Douglas ● Bushong

Sept 19 th Veiled Sentiments C2 ● Living in houses/modernizing, not losing identity as not defined by way of life, but by social organization, morals ● Origins/blood big factor -> noble pedigree, affects one’s behavior, why kinship important ● Egyptian gov’t- nomadism deterioration, but cultural assimilation failed. Defined in opposition ● Egyptians

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