ANT102H5 Lecture : Ethnicity.docx
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Overview: the logic social of classification, race, ethnicity, national identity. The logic of social classification: binary, insiders vs. outsiders, citizens vs. aliens / foreigners, segmentary, criteria for determining degrees of closeness, organized by principle of nepotism. Race: racial classification and phenotypic traits, cultural constructs vs discrete gene pools, homo sapiens a single species. Classification for race u. s. a: white, black or african american, american indian and alaska native, asian, native hawaiian & other pacific islander, some other race. Race in andean peru: indios quecha speakers, rural, indian dress, cholos bi lingual speakers, small town, small shopkeepers, mestizo (or, criollos) more affluent, urban, spanish speakers. Ethnicity: primordial attachments, ethnicity as descent, ethnicity and the nation state. No biological basis for how we divide races, it"s very arbitrary. Ethnicity is something that can change also over time, it is functional. Political systems of highland burma is where he did his field work: shan lowland river valleys, irrigation rice agriculture, complex society, big settlements.
