ANTH 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 33, 39: Potlatch, Antibody, Ethnography
26 Oct 2018
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Serves as an example of reciprocal exchanges. Describes what it is like to be a crack dealer in nyc. Details the change from manufacturing to bamking and service industries, and ties this in with the loss of acceptable jobs for uneducated harlem residents. Argues that selling crack is the alternative. Describes the impact of cocaine production on rurual peruvian villages and low-paid workers. Attracts men leaving mountain field to work in cocaine production. Shows how production process ahrms workera and makes them addicted. Women in poor brazil towns grow unattached to children. Only when they know their babies can survive will they grow attached. People expected babies to die easily and took this casually: due to poverty and malnutrition\ Children left at home alone and many die unattended. Large amount of hunger, sickness, and death. Women wouldn"t take back sick children: wouldn"t try to help save a sick child, already saw them as an angel rather than their child.
