ANTHROP 3P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-9: The Notorious B.I.G., Rakim, Erving Goffman
18 Apr 2018
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Chapters 6, 7, conclusion, and epilogue in on the run. Chapter six describes the market that exists for protection and privileges as the chapter title mentions. Goffman mentions jevon who would charge people under probation for his services that included voice imitation and memorization of important details to fool the probationary officers. Another account included shonda smuggling marijuana into jail for people she knew or did not know. There were also mentions of rakim selling urine for drug tests to prevent positive drug test results and selling of driver"s licenses to people who did not qualify for them, to mention a few. There were also mentions of bribing prison guards to smuggle drugs or pills to the inmates. This chapter shows just how corrupt the justice" system is. The one thing that was confusing is if she explained numerous terms throughout the ethnography, why she didn"t explain who biggie smalls was or what other terms meant.
