ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Moral Economy, Voyeurism, Symbolic Power
Document Summary
Concepts raised in the lecture/book for this week: It was increasingly seen as a crime to use drugs; they were responsible (rather than government responding with health services, it was cut by the increase of prisons and policing) Choose a concept from the book to emphasis the concept and create an anthropological question. Taking pleasure of fascination from spying from someone"s intimate suffering (something that is not meant to be public) Social pattern where there is an obligation to give, receive and repay. This establishes the boundaries of a community (by not following this, you are setting. Treating a person as things without giving humanity. Example: black person standing on the streets peeing. There were cars passing by, and there was a woman giving him a look that objectified him as lacking humanity for his actions. Structural forces and process that constrain choices. Example: taboo behavior that they choose or have to do, sex and drug.
