ANTHRO 134F Study Guide - Final Guide: Capela Dos Ossos, Headhunting, Grave Robbery
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Example: once something become a, slavery and human traf cking: commodity we remove the social relationships from it. We see it as an object with value that can be bought and sold, has a supply/demand issue, not as a social product that reveals social relationships. can be entirely owned by someone else. That person owns everything about your body and what use it was put to, such as physical labor or sexual labor. It lasted an entire lifetime and it was inherited. Human traf cking an example that exists today: bride price/bride service: Valuable asset is paid to the family for the bride. And then bride service would be provided. seen as compensating the work for the daughter used to do: athletes: commodify athlete bodies. Lots of people are making money off of athlete bodies. university athletes are not being paid the value they generate for the school.
