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Definition
Ethnicity is a process/relationship, not just a static category.
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Thinkers
Scholar: Clifford Geertz (Old Societies and New States, 1963).
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Definition
Ethnicity is a process/relationship, not just a static category.
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Thinkers
Scholar: Clifford Geertz (Old Societies and New States, 1963).
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Definition
A key feature distinguishing tribes from bands is the presence of pan-tribal sodality (associational organisation).
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Example / case study
Leader may select camp location but lacks coercive power The concept of tribe was elaborated by Elman Service.
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Thinkers
Scholar: Clifford Geertz (Old Societies and New States, 1963).
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Definition
Consumption is the utilisation of final goods and services by society.
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Example / case study
Potlatch (North-West Coast)- Kwakiutl by F. Boas
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Thinkers
Scholar: Clifford Geertz (Old Societies and New States, 1963).
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Definition
A key feature distinguishing tribes from bands is the presence of pan-tribal sodality (associational organisation).
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Thinkers
Identified by K.S. Singh – “tribalism without tribes”. Scholar: Clifford Geertz (Old Societies and New States, 1963).
Short notes for this Anthropology syllabus heading.