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Anthropology
10latie Exam I is Tuesday, October 11th. of study Guide is posted on Canvas!
Short answer questions are weighted heavier on exau!
a prompted for 3 paragraphs.
Different perspectives on classes in
Capitalism example of world view -
e max Weber
- Upper, middle & lower classes - Distinctions based on income & wealth - De-emphasizing relationships
- Popular views among wealthy.
• Karl Marx
- Bourgoisie: own resources, technology, & profits. -- Proletariansi no resources - exchange labor
for wages. - Emphasizes relationships - Popular among workers & under developed.. nations - more common in social sciences We also discuss several other topics like What does gunning mean by cinema of attractions?
To understand relationships among people.
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Sociopolitical Organization
Subsistence
General Associations
Cross-cultural associations for generalization
- for basic understanding of what life is like for people in different Sociopolitical types.
Band societies
- all are based on to Tribe Societies - most practice Horticulture Chiefdom societies We also discuss several other topics like What is the meaning of a neural tube in the developing brain structure?
- most practice Agriculture
• state societies
- All are supported by Agriculture
Modes of Production :
- means of productions
• Resources used
- Technology used (tools) product mode: The social way of producing thing
defined by social relations of production. - Social Relations of production
o who owns I controls the means of production?
& who does the producing?
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• Kinship mocks of production We also discuss several other topics like What is the meaning of tensile fractures in rock deformation?
10l4lle - Kin groups
Band
Extended household
• Kindred o lineage or clan
• Bands, Tribes $ Chiefdoms * Kindred is NOT a group, it refers to If you want to learn more check out What is the saturated adiabatic lapse rate?
geneological network of relationships,
Just network never group. - action group can be used to form short term group
• All members have rights to their kin group's means of production
- Lands, etc. Collectively owned.
• Everyone in the Kin group is to share work & Products
obligated
o Collective obligation to preserve means If you want to learn more check out Why is culture considered as people's way of life?
For future generations of members.
Tributary Mode of Production Tribute! People forced to produce surplus
taken by nobility
• Lords: Noble Kin groups own land &
receive Surplus tribute).
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• Sexts: No ownership, labor for
nobility in exchange for Subsistence, Belationship based on threat or force. Corvée Labor: Commoners' labor used for : If you want to learn more check out What was the cause for the emergence of modernization in europe?
monuments
• Palaces
• Roads Capitalist mode of production
o 17th Century origins
• Bourgoisie - own the means of production (private property).
• own resulting Commodities (surplus) because they own the means of
Production,
Proletarians - no means of production
"sell labor to the bourgoisie they get "wage" in return.
. Compensation for labor (to use on market)
• Ability to reproduce the labor
o Revista Ship is based on monetary
Buying power. exchange.
force.
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Peasents: farmers with family-owned plots of land.
. . Subsist off their farms
- Sell surplus on market Found in:
margins of tributary states.
Not to be confused with serfs. Capitalist states
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* Exchange systems &
- How products are distributed to Within.
& among groups a - Culturally Expected Exchange Principles
- Cviolations lead to social conflicts) * 3 Sub-categories of Reciprocity 7*
Generalized Beciprocity
o no immediate return (when something is given no immediate return is expected @)
ocvalue" not considered (you give because you have)
• Example: San, Southern Africa
• Balanced Reciprocity
lo immediate or prompt return
• Equal value
• Example: The Kula hing (of exchange) Melanesia Negative hecipacity
• To get something of greater value
To place others in de bt (so that they are endebted to you to gain power over then).
* To gain power
• Example: ubuti Congo Forest Redistribution
o centralized pooling
- leaders
• Redistribution ... example: Yunnan, China
- Social Security
Ceremonies Feasts - Between regions
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Region
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Fighting with property"
"teasting with thine themy"
• Marketplace Exchange
o value = Average labor tasse
• Exchange of goods
• Money: medium of exchange
example Oaxaca, Mexico
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• Capitalist Markets
Average labor time + overhead costs
+ Speculation
+ Profit
= value (price
of commodity to you)
of
o Coexistance of_Exchange Principles
• Some societies have different principles exchange for different social context.
. Each context has a culturall I expected principle of exchange.
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Cross-Cultural Generalizations on modes, sociopolitical Organization 3
Primary principal of Exchange *
Kinship modes of pproduction o Bands: reciprocity
Tribesar reciprocity Bredistribution e Chief clans: redisti loution
95% of
human existance
•
Tributary Modes of production
• States: redistribution & markets 5% of human
existance Capitalist mode of production
• States: markets
0.3% of human
existance.