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Political anthropology: lecture 1

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Theory in political anthropology and the state. Political systems, state and law, political theory since Aristotle, anthropology and politics

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  • Brilliant video, explained my entire years course in 40mins! Thank you!!

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    How encouraging... Thanks. Alan

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  • Was this recorded in a tuberculosis ward? All the coughing makes the instructor (already at low volume) extremely difficult to hear.

  • SHUT UP COUGHING

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  • What is the name the said at 37:40? David .... who?

  • @birgitdeubner got it. Alan Macfarlane and Cambridge.

    sorry for cluttering.

  • what is the name of the lecturer and where is the lecture please? thanks for this video. (wish the sick people had watched the video instead of spreading their cough.. ;) )

  • WTF, is everyone in this class terminally ill ?

  • "Aristotle hated democracy ...He was in modern terms reactionary" ... I have no doubt that none of today's so called "modern" universities would ever employ Aristotle.He was not such a spineless,corrupt and politically correct opportunist as so many of our professors and the academia in general.He lived in ancient Greece where freedom to think was not yet strangled and didn't degnerate into nauseating PC Orthodoxy of today.

  • Quoting Aristotle in this context is wrong.What is meant by "το ζώoν πολιτικόν" is not "'political animal" as he suggests but "someone belonging to a polis-a Greek city-state".Those who dοdn't live in a polis are barbarians.Especially Oriental nations subject to despotism and knowing no higher Greek culture are just born slaves to him.Few things could be also more opposite to Aristotle's "ζώoν πολιτικόν" than today's large bureaucraticized states and their subjects.

  • @maz235 referred me to this-- it's really helping me with revision, thank you!

  • @maz235

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