ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Relativism, Har Homa, Ethnography
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Nuer dilemmas coping money with the state 1996. It is good that you are living before the rains begin of the western lead of the nuer, In the 50 years that ep was there tons of things have changed, there is policemen (egalitarian society), law, taxes, a head chief a different form of politics, different way of administrating things, civil institution. Trading cattle, become a form of commodity - the relationship between cattle and the nuer has altered, family herd and purchased in the market freedom for young. Sudan 1956 declared independence, civil war happened right afterwards, the new state is very racialized categories to separate the two. Anthropological theoretical and style of writings has changed over the 50 years how you think will influence how you write. In the nuer, ep puts for a theory about political life among the nuer that became known as structural functionalism.
