ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Fact, Social Anthropology, Zande People

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Bernhard Leistle

Document Summary

Important essays: techniques du corps (body techniques), la notion de. Personne, celle du moi (the notion of the person, of self: essai sur le don ( the gift ) as main work, giving, receiving and reciprocating a gift belong together as a structure. Gift exchange is universal human phenomenon: exchange is not primarily economic but involves ritual, aesthetics and selves: a total social fact, therefore: gift exchange is communication. Evans-pritchard (1902 1973: research in central and northern africa. 1937 witchcraft, oracles and magic among the azande , one of the great classics in anthropology. 1940 the nuer : active service in wwii in sudan, ethiopia, lybia. 1949 the sanusi of the cyrenaica , on the history of a lybian religious brotherhood. 1946 1970 professor of social anthropology in oxford: connected social anthropology with the problem of culture. Witchcraft as a theory of causation: evans-pritchard goes beyond that: the azande don"t evoke witchcraft indiscriminately.