ANTH 2 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nationstates, Masculinity, Racialization
Document Summary
Most people live in cities and 10 percent of people produce food for the rest. Industrial revolution: replacement of human and animal energy by machines. Production focuses on goods and services for wages. Separation between us and nature"s is reinforced by. From foraging to industrialism complexity increases, but this is not evolution. Until 10000 yrs ago humans lived by foraging, 99 percent of human existence. Anthropologists see that economy is always related to culture. Mode of subsistence provides food/resources, but this is just part of an economic system. Emic:~adventure, freedom, no boss, can make money, get ahead in life, the tale of the one who made it big. Structure: ~all have little formal education, little socioeconomic prospects, all running\ away from something. Value is constructed, not a natural expression or inherent value. Cultural norms influence what has value, price, exchange, recirpcity. Norms of reciprocity have pos and neg values. Ruling class come to be seen as the norm.
