ANTH 425 Power and Change
27 September 2011
Some classical anthropological debates:
Oct. 4: The standard cultural ecology political framework and a marxist critique
Read: Anderson, Robert (1963)" Review of Profiles in Ethnology by Elman R. Service." American Anthropologist 65(6): 1360-61.
Ekholm, Kasja and Jonathan Friedman (1985) "Towards a Global Anthropology." Critique of Anthropology 5(1): 97-119 Sage.
- how does cultural ecology work?
- how does it classify societies into bands, tribes, chiefdoms and states? (Sometimes with variations for big man/woman society; urban archaic civilization, folk society, etc.)
- what are the features of these societies?
- what is this typology proposed to explain?
- how do Ekholm and Friedman challenge this kind of typology, or any division proposed by anthropological theory into "us/them," "civilized/primitive"?
- what do they propose as an alternative way of understanding social change and social difference?
- reproduction
- regional/global systems in time and space