ANTH 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mccarthyism, Eric Wolf, Sidney Mintz

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 3690
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Unilineal evolution e. g. lewis henry morgan was a huge influence: discussed technology systems on top of kinship systems. The communist manifesto (1845: (cid:862)workers of the (cid:449)orld u(cid:374)ite; (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g to loose (cid:271)ut (cid:455)our (cid:272)hai(cid:374)s(cid:863) The origin of the family, private property, and the state (engels, 1884) Commodity fetishism (value things that have no value; disguise relations of production) In marxist terms is a sort of product under capitalism. In marxism it is a specific formula you can measure. Instability and tendency to crisis: this is inherent in the capitalist motion, has to do with constant growth, the crisis is constant meltdowns of exploitation (ceasing ones home) Rejection of evolutionary theories, especially when applied to cultures or societies. Mccarthyism: the fbi"s i(cid:374)trusio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)to a(cid:374)thropolog(cid:455) duri(cid:374)g this period (cid:449)ere e(cid:454)te(cid:374)si(cid:448)e, frustration and dismantling careers of anyone with activist interests. Particularly anthropologists concerned with racial equity and desegregation as well as those interested in cultural materialism or cultural ecology (julian stewart, eg)