ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arnold Van Gennep, Kula Ring, Potlatch

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Ahmed Doha

Document Summary

Anth 1120 making sense of a changing world. How do collective identities and social movements form: changing and communicating identities. Gift-giving and identities: the kula ring and the potlatch. Commodities vs. gifts: how do north american transform commodities into gifts: collective identities and social movements: indigenous peoples. Outsiders" assumptions about the collective identity of indigenous peoples can be used against them e. g. land claims trials. Not everyone who claims membership in a collective identity experiences or practices it in the same way e. g. the telefolmin: ecuadorian indians, the nation and class in historical perspective (kim clark)