ANT370H1 Lecture 11: Lecture 11 - Foucaultian and Governmentality Approaches to Power and Inequality - March 25
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Lecture 11 - theories of power and inequality part 2 . Info about wardlow"s fieldwork: huli people of papa new guinea: studied with huli people in papa new guinea, first went to png to work with the peace corps. In the past, women and men lived in separate houses, had separate crops, and prepared their own food (even men; thought that a woman touching their food could taint it) They found they didn"t like this; living together, having too much sex, too many children, too much domestic abuse, etc. Ideologically, men are meant to be the more attractive sex, the sex that people are naturally attracted to whereas women have to work harder to be attractive. If women got ahold of special items that their brothers/husbands/fathers didn"t have, they would be taken and smashed because only men should have prestigious items: not as much like this today, murder deals. Msf has created a very western acknowledgement of domestic.
