ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Lewis H. Morgan, Antonio Gramsci
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Unequal access to prestige/status but not major unequal access to economic resources/power. Generosity for redistribution and maintenance of economic equality. Unequal access to prestige, economic resources, and power. Boundaries between classes is established by custom and tradition. Some possibility of moving from one class to another. Ranked group where membership is determined at birth. Marriage is restricted to members of one"s own caste. Thinkers such as karl marx and lewis henry morgan looked for laws through historical change. Cultural ecologists look to the natural environment. Anthropologists find that in fact, there is no law, that social organization is arbitrary. The patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the action and decision of its members. Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation laws. Transformative capacity; the ability to transform a given situation. The study of social power in human society.
