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ANTH326 Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan
Africa
Meeting 3, September 24, 2007
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Business
• Project Plan on October 15– “Pre-write” on October 8– Themes?
• Critical Reviews
• Media Critique
• Online Participation
• Office Hours
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Factoids again
•Toward critical thinking
•Consensus opinion from African studies
•Intro. to African Studies
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Wikipedia of Africa
•Empowerment
–OLPC
•Portal
•History
•Bantu Languages
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In African languages
• 77. Afrikaans: af (8281) (IE)
• 89. Swahili: sw (5982) (Bantu)
• 101. Yoruba: yo (4072) (Benue Congo)
• 113. Amharic: am (2989) (Semitic)
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Other African Wikipedias
•147. Lingala: ln (808) (Bantu)
•152. Wolof: wo (444) (Atlantic)
•198. Bambara: bm (138) (Mande)
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African Specificity
•Particularism/Universalism
–Anthropology
•Fluidity
–Lack fixed boundaries
–Contacts
–Negotiate identity
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“Consensus culture”
•Alternative to votes
•Democracy
•Negotiation
•Argument
•Debate
•«Arbre à palabres» (“Talking Tree”)
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Symbiosis
•Ecological concept
•Central/Eastern/Southern (more than North/West)
•Peaceful influence more than invasion
•Intermarriage
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Coexistence
•Agriculturalists/foragers
•State/bands
•Widespread religions, local belief systems
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Intensification
•Settlements
•Surplus
•Population
•City
•State
•Hierarchy
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Technological Evolutionism
•Iron age as if stage
•Civilization (Game)
–Linear evolution (Tech Tree)
–Prerequisites
–Compete
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Readings
• Questions?
• What struck you?
• Critical perspective– Author’s approach– Arguments
• Links with other texts
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Anthropology's Critique of Colonialism
•Colonial past
•Fanon's critique
•Hegemony
•Egalitarian because Post-Colonial structures?
–Solway and Lee
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Lamphear/Falola
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Large cultural groups
•Nilotes (Nilo-Saharan)
•Cushitic-speaking (Nilo-Saharan)
•Bantu-speakers (Niger-Congo)
•Mande speakers (Niger-Congo)
•San/Khoisan ("click")
•Sudanic languages (outdated classification)
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Language families
•Afro-Asiatic (including Semitic languages)
•Khoisan (including “click” languages)
•Niger-Congo (including Bantu languages)
•Nilo-Saharan (including Songhay, Maasai, Kanuri)
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Language families as cultures?
•Ease borrow language
•Trade languages
•Speech communities
•Not inter-communication
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Older African studies
•Similar to archeology
•Dark Continent
•Remnants
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Identifiable “cultures”
•Sculptures
•Architecture
•Textiles
•Languages
•Social structure
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History of states
•Kingdoms/empires
•Forced confederacies
•Loose organisation
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Non-State
•Small groups
–Not necessarily connected identity
•Nomadic groups
–Pastoralists (herders)
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Social Structure
•Next two weeks
•Age-Sets
•Age-Grades
•Lineages
•Queen Mother
•Artisans
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Gellar
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Scramble
•Industrial revolution
•Capitalism
•Invasion
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Colonial Experience
•Amadou Hampaté Bâ
•Colonials not seeing power
–Even recent
•Experience abroad
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Defining groups
•Amselle and M’Bokolo Au coeur de l’ethnie
•Created or reinforced by colonials
•Region
•Trade language
•Community of experience
•Spurious culture?