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Video Links Chapter 9
Political Anthropology
38:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJCH7G9kKcY
First of a series of lectures by Alan Macfarlane on the anthropology of political systems.
Chapter 10: Power and Politics
5:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnMOo9EP88&feature=related
Film clip from “The Cows of Dolo Ken Paye: Resolving Conflict among the Kpelle” by Marvin Silverman and James Lowell Gibbs, on the role of chiefs and ordeals in settling disputes over property
In Afghanistan, U.S. Soldiers as Cultural Anthropologists
8:22
An interview with Elizabeth Rubin of “The New York Times Magazine” on how soldiers in the war in Afghanistan must practice some of the methods and concepts of anthropology.
Blood Feud
3:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM6f43giUcg
A clip from National Geographic: “A blood feud in Albania country where taking revenge is a virtual duty.”
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