ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Isaac Schapera, Max Gluckman, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

Document Summary

Maine: status to contract, marker for progress of civilizaion, male lead of household, kinship responsible to crimes, independence liberated from oppressive structure of family through development of contract. Had ideas of progress but also looked at consequences of division of labour. Modernity wasn"t uniformly good: division of labour leaves people without this collecive consciousness, society had to be carefully regulated, raise stakes for poliical reform, sense of up-rootedness when independence did not have atachment to social norms. Revoluion in study of law and study of primiive socieies, briish social anthropologists. Concept of society led them to consider legal processes. Also considered colonialism, anthropology tried to link briish rule to social structure. Ideal of long term ethnographic method, and what emerged form this was number of studies that considered legal insituions of socieies in which anthropologists lived and worked. Isaac schapera: innovaive in his explicit coverage of colonial situaion in legal context in.