ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nacirema, Sexual Orientation, Intersectionality
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Body ritual among the nacirema by horace miner. Many forms of social difference based on group identity. Not mutually exclusive - different ways of classifying or categorizing social difference but they intersect. All of us experience intersectionality between several of these categories. Although categories are culturally constructed, the ability to define these categories of social difference is an important component of social and legal power. Anthropologists investigate how certain categories and their boundaries come to be taken for granted. Not only because it can be mixed, or hybrid, but because the boundaries of racial categories are constructed on the basis of folk taxonomy" - cultural constructs - not science of biology. Instead of asking what is race", we need to ask jefferson fish"s two questions (c&c p. From its inception, this modern concept of race was modeled after an ancient theorem of the. Great chain of being, which posited natural categories on a hierarchy established by god or nature.
