ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Ownership
29 May 2020
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Egalitarian societies - on equal ground; everyone is equal within the society, contributes to the society and culture equally, everyone valued equally, lack of hierarchy. Women die and sew their own clothing, according to their taste; women are often topless from waist up; complicated headdresses to indicate a woman"s status and health rice, potatoes; used to be opium. This film depicts this culture in a very biased way (favoring western culture). It creates a gap between themselves and who they"re studying. Depicting this culture as exotic (not in a good way), primitive, different, dissimilar from western culture. Emphasizes the differences between cultures and not the similarities, which is not what a good anthropologist would do. What we study/focus on when looking at the ju"hoansi: We"re accustomed to looking at societies that are massive (like the u. s. ) We must focus on small populations like the ju"hoansi, the lakota, etc.
