ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bakken Pipeline, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Capital
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Ex: riding a bike at ucsb bc cheaper than car, nowhere to park w/a car, greater access to key places, can do a lot w/o a car: meaningful/symbolic: meaningful way of living one"s life/not easily quantified. Ex: shortcut blocked off becomes official path (students exercising agency); ucsb turned ground (agency) into path (structure: structures influence behavior but may never be visible or obvious, material constraints on all humans: Environmental: temperature, soil fertility seasons, water: structures are invisible but aware of them as a member of a certain culture of subgroup. Ex: people won"t walk under ladder bc bad luck (invisibile) Invisible lasers sting you when you violate rules of manners, hierarchy, status, superstitions, fashion, ritual: some groups face additional structures that help or harm them. Class: cultural capital: these structures produce dis/advantages , structures aren"t just invisible, they"re actively denied & hidden by ideology & culture, babakiueria film: 1986 australia.
