ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Birds Eye View, Truism
10 Mar 2016
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Society the problem: the one and the many. We tend to think of the least common denominator as the individual self. Add up these individual and you obtain a group. An individual is not so easily extricated from a social group. Society as an organism (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the (cid:449)orki(cid:374)gs of a so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g the ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) of a given member. Focusing on society forces us to broaden our socio-anthropological analysis. Once we start talking about anthropology in terms of social organization, you get involved in other kinds of questions; questions involving power. Each person is a society microbiome / all the flora within, cells, virus, and bacteria. The one and the many is about these paradoxes; true reality that we are individual but made up of other things. Turner: social structures, kinship, how individuals move through these in their course of their everyday lives. Social relationships and relation of society to power.
