ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Power, Moral Economy, Medical Anthropology
Document Summary
Lecture 2 of this class did not occur because the prof was sick. About relationships amongst the drug users tina and carter. Talks about moral economy of gift giving. Understanding romantic and sexual relationships within the moral economy of gift giving. Explicitly the drug use and medical treatments. Drug consumption (african user inject in vein, whereas caucasians do it in the muscles) Symbolic violence of public help outreach (hygienic health practices without la enforcements) Pathogenic law enforcement (criminalization of drug use was increase disease) Socially constructed patterns of behavior: this ultimately leads to different uses of drugs and the different coping mechanism. Example: white people would inject into their muscles (tissues) for more access whereas black people injecting their vein, crack is a black person drug use. Social obligate between relationships to receive and reciprocate and give and establishes community boundaries: not just material gifts, but emotion and affective gifts in romantic relationships.
