ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Relativism, Isaac Schapera, Ethnocentrism
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What is this essay about: rosaldo goes to this place where people are not allowed to chop people"s head off even though the tribe he has visited wants to. It was rosaldo"s own experience of rage (his wife was killed) that allowed him to feel what the headhunters felt. The ethnographer as a positioned subject: what rosaldo is teaching us is reflexes. Thoughts on witchcraft & the anthropology of religion. Compared to fox: author gives you a much more comprehensive view of his thought process. He is much more reflexive than fox and rosaldo. However after his mother died, his siblings wanted madumo to work but madumo could not find work. Madumo tried, there was always something in education"s way. Julius malema is an important political figure and is calling for a radical distribution of wealth. So you could say he is a huge marxist. Julius is a radical proponent that is against white people.
