ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Marvin Harris, Social Inequality

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Jennifer Liu

Document Summary

Anthropology of the body if the physical body serves as site on gender, ethnicity, class are symbolically marked tattoos create the cultural body creating and maintaining specific social boundaries . Different subcultures of tattoo culture: professional, semi professional, street, prison. Specific types of common themes/images on prisoner bodies. Diy tattoos with needles and black ink. Convict (antagonist towards authority, demands respect, gets tattooed because it is illegal) vs. inmate (model, good behavioral prisoner) Expresses social division, but helps produce meaning in lives. Political anthropology addressing behavior/though related to public power. Studying pro-ana websites and if they should be legal. Socially accepted ways of maintaining social order and resolving conflict. A prince, dictator, doctors, police, pm"s: authority. Ability to achieve desired result by exerting social/moral pressure on someone. Modes of political organization (small, simple to complex, larger) Band: smaller societies, foragers, no formal leaders, based on age/kinship. Tribe: horticulture, lineage group, similar lifestyles occupying a territory.