ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Informal Sector, Commoditization
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Whether or not you are the citizen of a country or not, you still abide by their laws. Law has a very deep history (it"s based on certain assumptions) Anthropologists try to study what is legal by also considering what is illegal (those who fall outside the legal boundaries are deviant, immoral people) Movement of items across boundaries is not something new (it is connected with legal and illegal) He was born in the 13th century (followed aristotle) He said that state of nature is about the community (all human beings are political beings) !---ancestors served the same purpose law serves now a days. Drawing a line between legal and illegal (acceptable and not acceptable) Where there isn"t religion, law acts as a final source of authority and exercise a social, regulative, function. Either right or not (certain types of marriages are acceptable while others are not)
