ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Shared Belief, Postmodernity
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Race is a social reality: has deep social impact, institution of slavery contributed to the rise of global capitalism. Colonislism and identity: 5,000 years ago there was no race. There were ways of identifying people but not by racial means: people often grouped into units by colonial authorities, technologies of governance, enabled extractive economies that underpinned empire. Id"s: national, regional, linguistic, gender, class, racial, territorial, you belong to multiple groups, sometimes you act into one more than into others. Often creative process by those inchareg of overtly patriotism. Narrates how latinas are like this, islamic people are like this: multiculturalism. If you"re recognized in a certain group you might not have access to resources or power. Allows you to justify your lifestyle and how you do things. The way politics effect the enonomy and how it is traced historically. Eric wolf-europe and the people about history.
