ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Stratification, Narrative Thread, Emic And Etic
2 Dec 2014
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Individual vs. society (psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists: group common interest, classification system. Non-kin groups: sodalities association other than kinship (e. g. age age sets, sex) 3 primary lines: economic wealth, political power, status. 3 types of societies: egalitarian societies, no groups of people with economic, political, or status advantages, foragers everyone has the same, everyone is the same socially. Same status opportunities: ranked societies, horticulturalists, pastoralists, tribes, chiefdoms, similar economic advantages/opportunities, similar political advantages, but different status at individual level. Economics: class-bound societies, groups (secondary, symbolic, selective, with similar economic, political, status advantages. A class: but there"s always more than one group/class. Political: achieved positions fluidity, ascription too (ascribed) birth. Occupations: hawai"i, ali"i royalty, divine power, kahuna priests, professional (doctors), boat builders, maha"ainana commoner, farmers, fishers, labourers, kauwa war captives, slaves. Goods: describe maisin culture, characterized change, modern + traditional, undergraduate, anthropology is done. 2 stories: maisin descriptive ethnography, story of an anthropologist. Linguistics: description of properties of languages, rules.
