ANT 302 Study Guide - Final Guide: Free Trade, Ethnic Cleansing, Anthropological Literature
3 Feb 2014
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Study of drug use on upper east side of new york city: mens activities: street corner car repair, selling drugs and working for contractors, womens activitives: baby sitting, seamstresses and tending bar in social clubs. Drugs are seen as a legitimate source of income as well as an escape from theircondition. Karl max: classes arise when one group controls the means of production, class system, the ideology of class. Antonio gramsci: italian part of the community party of italy, important marxist thinker, he is renowned for his concept of cultural hegemony as a means of maintaining the state in a capitalist society. Economic theorist of construction of hierarchy (from powerpoint) Samuel george morton: viewed brain size as criteria for intelligence. Worked to justify inequality: concluded that africans and native americans were inferior race. Two things, which in truth are but one, constitute this soul or spiritual principle. One lies in the past, one in the present.
