ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Red, Social Stratification, Manumission
16 May 2013
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A long-enduring value in the united states is the belief that all men are created equal . These famous words from the american declaration of. Independence do not mean that all people are equal in wealth or status but rather that all (including women nowadays) are supposed to be equal before the law. But the ideal is not always the actuality. Some people have advantages in legal treatment, and they generally also tend to have advantages of other kinds, including economic advantages. Anthropologists would argue that egalitarian societies exist where social groups (e. g. , families) have more or less the same access to rights or advantages. The economic systems of many food collectors and horticultural promote equal access to economic resources for all families in the community. Societies also tend to emphasize the sharing of food and other goods, which tends to equalize any small inequalities in resources between families.
