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ANTH326 Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
Meeting 4, October 1, 2007
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Assignments
• Deadlines• Marks• Grades
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Past Factoids Stage
• Culture(s)• Mainstream cultural anthropology– Expose to approach– From field research
• Will get more critical/analytical
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Discussion
• Limited lecturing• Exchange ideas– Reassessing Africa– Get on same page– Shared understanding
• Debates ok– Thoughtful disagreement– Better discuss them online
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Unpacking issues
• Not rehash/summarise• Try to understand content– Explain (in own words)– Implications
• Picking themes
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Active Reading(Discussion Prompts)
• What struck you?• Critical perspective– Author’s approach– Arguments
• Links with other texts
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McCall
• African distinctiveness generalization vs. diversity
• Community (larger than kinship)– Imagined Communities (Benedict Anderson)
• Individual/group– Acribed/achieved status
• Group land ownership
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Defining Cultural Groups
• “Ethnic groups” («Ethnies»)• “Ethnology” of bounded entities?– “Cultural traits”– Internal logic– Holism
• Fluid identity
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Social Structure in General
• Sub-groups– Subcultures?
• May be primary identity• Internal structure– Hierarchy (dominance)– Stratification (social classes)– Egalitarianism
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Egalitarianism
• Non-State Societies• Small groups• Nomadic groups– Pastoralists (herders)– Foragers (hunter-gatherers)
• Part of broader groups
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Status
• Prestige• Authority• Power– Political– Social– Supernatural
• Wealth
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Occupation
• Recognisable (like blue/white collar)• Specialisation• Hierarchy• Identity
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Craftspeople
• Occupational– Griots– Blacksmiths– Leatherworkers
• Ambiguous status• Power• Endogamy (marry within)
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McCall 2
• Intro, ethnography, place• Civic projects• Assimilation vs. flexibility (cultural change,
acculturation, adaptation)• Efficiency/appropriateness
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McCall 3
• Kinship/household/subsistence• Wealth/prestige• Gender and ownership• Matrilineality (sibblings…)• Importance of age– Coming of age
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Gender
• More next week• Roles• Status• Identity• Power• Matrilineality• Polygyny
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Age
• Gerontocracy• Ancestors• Age sets and age grades– Initiation societies– Rites of passage– “Oldboy”– Separate genders
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Secret societies
• Initiation societies• Muslim brotherhoods (sufism)– Tijaniyya
• Freemasons
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Voluntary Associations
• Social networks• Urban life• Local• "Ethnic“• Cosmopolitan networks• Political parties
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Westernization
• Cultural Contacts• Cultural change– Coerced or voluntary
• Western-like but typically African– Networks– Manage change
• Other partners
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Education
• School types (Koranic, Missionary, National)– Networks
• Formal education• “Western-style”• Obsession with literacy– Power of orality
• Gender• Generation gap
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“Afrosphere”
• African-American bloggers– Could apply same concept to Africa?
• Online representation• Separate realities– Segregation?– Worldviews