ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Conflict Resolution, Exogamy, Neoliberalism
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The way that we are in and out of balance with environmental conditions. Mobility of people; movement of things, goods, ideas, media, etc. Modernity (latest and most recent things) contrasts with tradition. Tradition is reproduced in the modern world. Culture as a functioning system that is relatively static. Capture what he imagined to be the tradition of the nuer people - stretched to the past. Ignored the forces pressing on them/modern world - trying to show that they live in a long traditional past. Ethnographies of the modern world: conflict and change in global context. Hutchinson: nuer dilemmas: coping with money, war, and the state (1996) Nuer as part of the modern world with modern forces pressing on them - market economy, war (alliance with national state; weapons), new state/different states. Paints a different picture of the nuer. British colonial rule - establish tax and tribute offices; naming chiefs into forms of power.
