ANT E101 Lecture 15: Ant_E101_Class_-_15
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Combining forms of inequality: race and the latin american colonial caste system. Caste paintings from a description of the kingdom of new spain (mexico) Ideals of a retrievable purity of blood ascribed only to spanish and indians. Three founded races, indian, spanish, and negro. Who people have babies with determines what race they are. Think of the pictures in the class. Something special about indian and white blood, once there is black blood it can"t go back to pure. Idea is that race is something that everyone has to have. Ethnicity: doesn"t necessarily mean that you are trying to categorize the whole world. When we have an ethnic group what we also have is a boundary, it is constructed by people who are inside and outside of the group. Trying to talk about the nature of ethnic boundary. If you just come up with a list of traits, if you have this religion, language and ancestry you are a.
