ANT370H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Clifford Geertz, Belp, Cockfight
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Lecture 10 marxist inspired approaches to power and inequality. In anthropology this term usually refers to marxist-inspired approaches that examine: the social relations of power that constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources organs, etc. Steward: cultural ecology, benedict: personality and culture. Caribbean in order to understand the global political economy of sugar (e. g. his. 1985 book sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history: also used marxist theory to try to analyze slavery. Exploitation of slave labour is what made the global sugar economy what it is today; in a sense slaves were the proletariat. However still slaves; true proletariats have more rights (wages, lives, families, freedom to quit their job, etc. ) Eventually english, spanish, and french sugar economies came into competition with one another, severely dropping the price of it and making it more available to the less wealthy. Here we confront the major inadequacy of the text as metaphor for culture.