ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Peanut Butter, Alcoholism
21 May 2013
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Spreading western way of life, modernity & consumer culture, first thing he stresses is providing for children & getting them education important in creating class differences we see. Eating take out food & drinking coke all things associated with western consumer culture: men & women separated for most of the day. Strong taboos for interaction between men & women. Sometimes seen as dangerous, men said a man can lose their strength/their skin won"t look that good. All taboos whatever they may have been have been put aside & people are living: alcoholism. As soon as alcohol became available there were many problems like domestic violence, fighting and dependency on alcohol: groups of young men that form gangs. One of the goals of the independent government of png was to provide universal education at least primary. Country was so successful it produced young men with say a grade 10 education but there were no jobs.
