ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Invented Tradition, Indirect Rule, Omnipotence
31 Aug 2020
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Not a description of what practices and institutions are older or newer . A strategies discourse applied to practices and institutions that carry with it certain moral judgments and understandings of proper path to development. Indirect rule: the british rule here is to bring the country all the gains of civilization by applied science with as little interference as possible with native customs and modes of thoughts new methods may often be clothed in familiar garb. Changes in role of village chiefs: given jurisdiction over fixed territory, checks on authority eliminated. Reshaping of how authority had actually been presented in the past. Switch from a form of authority based on descent/lineage to one that"s based on territory. Codification of previously flexible traditions of rule. Reshaping (and sometimes creating) tribal group identities. Everything that was flexible over time became codified and inflexible. European assumptions of how life works (only listening to one head person)
