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SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Use either Levi-Straus/Sahlins, Douglas, Turner, or Geertz [either “Person, Time, and Place in Bali” or “Deep Play: Notes on A Balinese Cockfight” – but not “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man”], or some combination of these authors/reading assignments, to analyze one of these two ethnographic films: Trance and Dance in Bali (https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs02425201/) or Trobriand Cricket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZFNRc9mKk). In presenting an analysis, be sure to match particular = claims to evidence taken from the film, showing how the claim is supported by both the evidence and the theoretical model(s) you have chosen.]PART TWO:Please answer the following question (1,500 word limit). Take one of the two films  Trance and Dance in Bali (https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs02425201/) or Trobriand Cricket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZFNRc9mKk), and ask what questions Rosseberry might ask about the film. You do not have to use the same film that you discussed in part one. Be sure to note how Roseberry’s concerns might complicate a symbolic anthropological or structuralist interpretation.