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Richards and Robbins
Questions
In what ways is the role of kinship and/or ritual similar in Urapmin and Bemba societies and in what ways is it different?
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In what ways if at all are the arguments concerning kinship central to Chisungu and Becoming Sinners
In what ways are Richards' discussion of the Chisungu ritual and Robbins' discussion of the Spirit Disko similar and in what ways are they different?
'the relationship between social structure and ritual is central to both Chisungu and Becoming Sinners'. Discuss.
how significant is it for the analyses offered in chisungu and becoming sinners that the Bemba are matrilineal and the Urapmin are cognatic?
Compare and contrast the political and social importance of ritual as portrayed in Chisungu and Becoming Sinners
'Urapmin ways of life and Bemba ways of life are different from each other primarily because of the distinct problems their different social structures raise for each group'. Discuss
Richards and Robbins both attempt to realise the goal of ethnographic holism. To what extent and in what ways does this shared goal render their ethnographies similar to one another?
How do the different theoretical approaches of Audrey Richards and Joel Robbins shape their respective ethnographies, Chisungu and Becoming Sinners?
How do Audrey Richards and/or Joel Robbins' theoretical approaches shape their respective ethnographies, Chisungu and Becoming Sinners?
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What if anything do Audrey Richards and Joel Robbins have in common as ethnographers and/or theoretical thinkers?
Schools
Structural-functionalism
not same as functionalism (Malinowski's, focus on all parts of society serving some biological or psychological needs)
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Symbolic Structuralism?
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Dumont added that not only do all parts of a culture have a meaning, they have a relative value
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