ANTH 3220 Midterm: ANTH3220Exam2Notes.pdf
3 Jan 2015
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Be specific, and include a discussion of how, in the area discussed by graeber, people first experienced a period of generalized terror, and then a period of regulated control. Peon is basically a person used as collateral for debt paying the interest and securing it. The use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt. A system of convict labor by which convicts. Person must work to repay debt, but it is often impossible to repay principle or interest. Become slave through kidnapping, war, debt, and other ways. Person"s pledge of their labor or services as a repayment for a loan or other debt are leased to contractors. Can be passed on from one generation to the next. Still part of social context relation with other human beings and some rights. Still part of social context some relation with other human beings and limited rights. Person has now effectively become property, violence has severed link with social context.
