ANT370H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Commodity Fetishism, Premarital Sex, Gift Economy
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Many would argue it is not and see it as pleasure or sin or etc. They are owned by their father"s clan and responsible to them until a husband pays bride wealth to then own them instead. When a woman is owned by a man (her husband) other men are not to use her for anything; sex, work, etc. unless the husband is compensated. Not really a word for rape , but rather a word that implies stealing a woman"s genitals . Implication that women who don"t belong to one man are equally available to all men. Karl marx (1818 1883: humans are not naturally profit-seeking beings whose most basic desires are to amass material wealth. This is a specific form of subjectivity that emerges within capitalist culture: accumulating material wealth is something we learn to value by being a part of commodity economy. Species-being : it is human nature to transform the natural world around us.
