ANTHRO 3AC Final: General Concepts

Boas

The culture concept; culture is not genetics

Durkheim

Mechanical versus organic solidarity; social facts

Tarde

on imitation, creation, opposition, waves

Mauss

on the gift, on the kula and potlatch, hau; on techniques of the body

Levi-Strauss

on binary oppositions as “structure”, on synchronic versus diachronic analysis

Rubin

on women as gift and the circulation of women, on how sex/gender systems are maintained

Marx

Classes (bourgeoisie vs proletariat), class struggles, relations of production, consciousness (true, false, class), end of history, Capitalism, dialectic method, Structure/base/infrastructure versus superstructure/ideology/culture, surplus value

Weber

Rationalization, hermeneutics, moral duty/ Protestant work ethic and the formation of capitalism, forms of authority (traditional, bureaucratic-rational, charismatic); Dialectic; Thesis antithesis

Foucault

Power, sovereignty versus biopower (the latter focused on the individual body, as anatomopolitics (or discipline) or focused on the population, as biopolitics), discipline, violence, alliance vs sexuality, capillarity power

Nader

studying up versus studying down: Studying up by looking at the institutions in power, creating access to study them

Scheper-Hughes

responsibility of ethnographer as bearing witness, keeping records

Van-Gennep

Rites of Passage; Liminality

[State 1] → Separation → Liminality → Incorporation → [State 2]

Turner

Social Drama; Rifts

Pandian

the fortress mentality, fear building between people causing them to physically wall themselves off