ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Movement, Neoliberalism, Egalitarianism

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Othon Alexandrakis

Document Summary

Then berlin conference. developed nations helped developing nations for stability. corporations challenge nation state; the former was come up as more dominant power. Corporations now trans-national. regulation is typically for fair play. So role of government has to have less regulations. neoliberalism: for less worker"s rights, government is service of corporations. If behaviour limits corporations access to markets then deemed unethical. Power and politics throughout human history, ppl have organize politically via. Exible strategies to come groups and communities better place to live. ancestors have done this, i. e. egalitarians. examples of people in primitive political arrangements, this was egalitarianism. universal rules of humans organized themselves. Looked during post colonial ww2 in africa, how they resolved con ict and organized themselves. decided: humans evolved from different political organizations from simple to complex. From bands, tribes > state. bands: small kin-ship based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a practical territory.