ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Original Affluent Society, Marshall Sahlins, Healthy Diet
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What can anthropology add to the debate about progress and development: key terms to keep in mind, modes of livelihood, population density, political organization, social organization. How do anthropologists think about race: race is a recent human invention, race is about culture, not biology, race and racism are embedded in institutions and everyday life. Race versus ethnicity: the two terms of often used interchangeably but, race insists on natural or biological explanations, ethnicity based on a shared sense of identity, and a relationship to other groups. Racial categories as arbitrary: finger prints, tongue rolling. Mixed race (black/white) would be: black in u. s. and canada, moreno (brunette) in brazil, coloured in south africa during apartheid. Origins of racial thinking: closely linked to colonialism and slavery, the great chain of being . Ideology of inequality rationalized european treatment of other peoples; was turned into.
