ANTH 425 Power and Change

29 September 2011

 

Based on: http://exposureroom.com/members/tedramasola/f1268a7fbdb64011951738a8fa6a4332/

 

Objectives: to develop analytical skills in applying theory to ethnographic material; to practice analysis and selection of information, which is a major step in essay writing.

 

Task:

Watch the video. Apply what you have learned about each theory to the information to see how the theories would interpret it.

Gluckman: structural functionalism

Abélès: Foucault

Wolf: his version of marxism

Kurtz: Gramsci

Which do you think is the most effective at explaining what is really going on?