ANTH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Australian Nationalism, Test Of English As A Foreign Language, Pejorative
Document Summary
Political anthropology, social power, and inequality: structural violence, difference and. The cross cultural study of politics (i. e. social power: stratification creation of a separate social strata, dimensions of stratification: Intersectionality of categories within stratification: gender, class, caste, race, ethnicity, and nationality. Often seen as natural to shore up legitimacy for those in power. Structural violence: violence resulting from the way political and economic forces structure risk for various forms of suffering: e. g. infectious and parasitic diseases. In haiti, structural violence dictates spaces in which the poorest and least powerful must live: subjects them to highly intensified risks of all kinds. Medical approaches to alleviate suffering often focus on the individual and blame the individual from poor health (non-compliance) or own distress: paul farmer"s work highlights the structure of their suffering. Two key concepts provide the foundation of the caste system: varna: hindu notion that indian society is divided into priests, warriors, farmers and merchants, jati: localized, named, endogamous groups.
