ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Dalit, Natural Selection
3 Dec 2018
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Inequality is individual and ascribed by birth. A layering" of society into strata based on income and assets. A historical development of south asian hindu society, caste is a hierarchy of social categories based on a scale of group ritual purity/impurity. The degree of a caste"s ritual purity depends upon the traditional occupation associated with that particular caste. For example, brahmins (the highest caste) were priests in traditional. Indian society, while midwives, leather workers, and waste collectors were dalit ( untouchables ) because they handled organic waste products. Caste in rural india correlates with class to a great extent. Believed to have developed with a system of division of labor. Ritual status of pure, less pure, impure. A system of inequality where people of certain racial/ethnic groups are seen as imperial workers, less intelligent. Why race is in our heads and not in our genes. Of branches of humanity: homo sapiens has been a mobile,
