ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cynthia Enloe, Émile Durkheim, Spirit Possession

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Chivens

Document Summary

Race , sexual orientation, and the high school/college debate world. Shift in analytic attention from corridors of power, to brothels, bathrooms, and, lunch rooms, . Private sites are casually connected to public, forms of power created and legitimized by national state interests. Show private forms of power with public sites. For enloe she makes connections between gender, kinship, assembly lines, labor activism, and the politics of global trade in south east asia. Entry point: consider mlaysian factory workers in a region studied by aihwa ong. Labor force composed of 85% young, unmarried women. Schools are designed to show them to work. Harsh discipline and surveillance from male supervisors. An attempt to confront labor expectations in an unorthodox way. Weretigers invade as many as 120 people at a time. What is the difference between religion, anthropologically speaking and a religion, . How have anthropologists approached the topic of religion. How does religion intersect with cultural worlds.