1. ANTH 326 Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa

• Meeting 3

2. September 22, 2010

3. On Our Way

Third Week

4. Drop/add 5. Sites 6. First readings 7. Different texts

Different tones

8. Not yet anthro 9. Theme: Diversity

Summary of previous course

10. Next Week: Anthro

Southall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/17/aidan-southall-obituary

McCall

http://anthro.siuc.edu/mccall/index.html

11. History

Embedded

12. Colonial pivot

Scramble for Africa

13. Colonial Era 14. Independence 15. Postcolonialism Perception that Africa retains pre- 16. Modernity

Industrial

17. Democratic 18. Nationalistic (Askew) 19. WEIRD 20. Mali

Malian Flag

21. Vexilology 22. Ethiopia 23. African Americans 24. Keim

Moravian teaching

http://www.moravian.edu/default.aspx?pageid=3293

IU background 25. Strong language 26. National Geographic 27. Chapter on Dark Continent 28. Neff

Macrolevel

Whole continent

29. Back and forth Causal/deterministic

Famines Sahel

Superlatives

Gondwana comparison

Almost National Geographic 30. Copperbelt 31. Western Carolina

http://www.wcu.edu/9643.asp

32. Gordons

April A. Gordon is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Women's Studies Program at Winthrop University.

33. Donald L. Gordon is professor of political science and director of the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics, and Public Leadership at Furman University. 34. Macro/Micro

Micros

Ethnography, microsociology, microhistory, microeconomics

Macros: Political science, history, economics, geography

Clash of Civilizations? (Huntington)

35. World System Theory 36. GDP Obsession 37. 38. Continent Maps

One continent

Sahara as highway

Recognizable shape

Blank map

Overlay

Metaphoric

39. Maps

Geographical features

40. Hydrography 41. Topography 42. Resources

Soil

43. Mines Climates

Symmetry

Political divisions 44. 45. Mali

World Factbook

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ml.html

Ethnologue

http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp?name=ML

Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LihwWpBwDQ

Un peuple, un but, une foi