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S SE ES SS SI IO ON N 1 1 P PA AR RT T I I: : P PR RO OB BL LE EM MS S I IN N P PO OL LI IT TI IC CA AL L A AN NT TH HR RO OP PO OL LO OG GY Y

• What is Political?
• 1930s-1950s: British Colonial

Anthropology and the Structural- Functionalist Approach to Politics

• 1950s-1960s: British Anthropology in

Africa and Processual Approaches

• 1960s: British Anthropology in Africa

and Conflict Studies, Dynamic Processes

• 1970s/1980s—present: Marxism,

Political-Economy, Liberalism

• Is There a State?
• The Weight of the Enlightenment

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ce es ss se es s  Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden: “The study of politics, then, is the study of the processes involved in determining and implementing public goals and in the differential achievement and use of power by the members of the group concerned with those goals”

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