ANTC32H3 Lecture Notes - Ingroups And Outgroups, Incest Taboo, Exogamy
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People who can get land are castes who are born into it. Caste has a privilege and land is a method of domination. Asad"s caution on our quest for finding order in a political system. Barth said this is what reproduce today"s system. Asad said what makes today"s system work has some kind of sovereign power that regulates itself. Barth is kind of like hobbes he finds order but that is because there is some kind of force there. Asad ended by saying this process and stabilizing class domination led the state in the swat. Economic power made british rule to come in and govern that population. So we are trying to track evolutionary model. Some kind of system in a tribal or egalitarian society that was used to differentiate people, being solidified into dividing people like kinship. This takes on kind of political capability which forms into politics.
