ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Outsourcing, Prison Notebooks, False Consciousness
16 Nov 2016
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Week 10: culture and power, chapter 11: social organization and power. The search for the laws of social organization. History as a prototype of and for political action. Omit in their own words p. 272; 286. Key terms, including hegemony, resistance, ideology, biopower, governmentality, anomie, alienation. Ethnographic insights (el salvador; somalia; tamils in sri lanka; bolivia tin miners; Focus: on social organization and the power of human beings to produce, reproduce or change that organization (p. 268) The study of social and political power in human society. Joan vincent (2002): three phases of political anthropology: formative era (1851-1939) - first commentaries on political affairs, classic era (1942-1971) - post wwii decolonization 1950s-60s, new era (170s-) globalization and questions about power and inequality. Formative era (1851-1939): thinkers such as karl marx and lewis henry morgan looked for laws through historical change. Anthropologists find that in fact, there is no law, that social organization is arbitrary.
