ANTH 1003 Study Guide - Our Lady Of Sorrows, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ethnobotany
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Contribute to: building culture and society social relations of power power is often unevenly distributed along gender lines gender plays a role in social power individual and groups identities gender intersects with other social identities formation of kinship and other groups ideas about gender and gender roles contribute to who and how one marries and how one contributes to kin relations social meaning and value our concepts of gender and gender roles influence other concepts. Race in 19th century race comes to be seen as permanent separable types with innate qualities passed on from generation to generation natural differences of lineages come to be seen as biological differences of hierarchically ordered races scientific racism context: abolition of slavery seems a contradiction, but slavery abolished in part because seen as unsuitable for modern industrial society (think back to mintz) and scientific racism continued to be used to justify oppression rise of imperialism in asia, africa, and pacific.
