ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Isaac Schapera, Audrey Richards, Western Law
17 Mar 2016
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Audrey richards shows how bemba iniiaion ceremonies (the chisungu) help to show women their roles and place in society. Insills them with cultural values they"re meant to carry for the rest of their lives. Malinowski focused on group ies, reciprocity, and social structures as enforcers of law. Richards focused on the psychological funcions of security and one"s assurance of knowing one"s place and funcion. Schapera looks at kgotlas in botswana, in which a chief oversees a court. Worked within a strict mandate, with cases of state concern (e. g. murder) going to state run courts. Sought to hep colonial administraions understand naive law as well as the efect colonialism was having on that law. In modern terms, he"d be considered an applied anthropologist. Didn"t bracket out colonialism the way pritchard had done early in his career. The tradiional usages of the tswana have changed considerably owing to contact with. This quote comes from the handbook he wrote for colonial administrators.
