ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Endogamy, Jim Crow Laws, Caste System In India
26 Jul 2013
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50 years ago: blacks were/are still suffering from the racial prejudices that have been long established in america. We all have a social identity eg. deaf people from last week: they have their own culture that transcend where they come from on the planet. Hippie generation, nerds, bikers, hipsters: all these groups have an identity (symbols, aspects) to the ways they come together and agree upon. They live according to those ideals that are part of their unification. A social classification based on a common cultural heritage and selected cultural features such as language, religion, or dress. Ethnicity emerges from historical processes that incorporate distinct social groups into a single political structure under conditions of inequality. Ethnic groups: social groups that are distinguished from one another on the basis of ethnicity. Objectification: the intentional construction of a collective public identity; it is the process that produces what we commonly think of as ethnicity.
