ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Racialism, Endogamy

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: Hugode Burgo

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Stratified societies: higher ranking groups have disproportionate access to wealth, power, and prestige. A ranked group within a hierarchally stratified society whose membership is defined primarily in terms of wealth, occupation, an access to power. Industrial working class - the capitalist of production- marx predicted that they would become the new leading class. Clientage- institution lining individuals from upper and lower levels in a stratified society. Relationships between patron (higher status) and client (lower status) Lower status depend on finding a high status individual who can protect them. Hierarchy depends on income, although there are no barriers, and you may rise or fall between classes. Race began to be a defining factor for classes. Caste in india: varna: the division of india into: priests, nobility (rulers and warriors), commoners (farmers and merchants) and labourers or servants, jati: which refers to localized, named, endogamous group. Ranked on a scale of purest and most polluted.