ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Commodity Fetishism, Elman Service
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Power and poliics: the state, social protests, and violence. Women are supposedly easier to control, so more workers were women. The experience of capitalism is a gendered experience (diference experience for each gender: flexible accumulaion. Relocate factories overseas in order to make more of a proit. There is a separaion between the transacion and the workers- use of currency. Commodity feishism the percepion of the social relaionships involved in producion, not as relaionships among people, but as economic relaionships among the money and commodiies exchanged in market trade. How we regulate power; distribuion of power, resources, and responsibiliies in a society. The exercise of power: the pracice of inluencing other people on a global, civic, or individual level. An autonomous regional structure of poliical, economic, and military rule with central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and deined its territory. (guest) The state has the monopoly on the legiimate use of force.
