Anthro authors

clifford geertz

culture is about symbols, webs of significance, symbols have deep variegated and polarizing meanings, symbols are multivocal, symbols do not have the same meaning for people outside of a cultural group

David Graeber

Debt is more moral than economic, still choose to play debts even when they cause hardship, they are a social obligation, legal obligation, moral obligation

marshall salins

kinfolk are persons who participate intrinsically in each others existence, they partake of each other’s sufferings and joys, sharing one another’s experiences even as they take responsibility for and feel the effects of each other’s acts

kath weston

chosen families

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

poor brazilian communities, death without weeping, babies who couldn’t survive were left to die and not mourned

Sherry Ortner

gender inequality, women are universally subordinated/no matriarchal societies exist, women are described as closer to nature because of reproduction, women are confined to domestic family spaces, believes that change is possible if both genders contribute

Christopher Loperena

Guarafina people, the economy depends on thema ttracting tourists and uses them. formarketing but doesn’t want them to step on the tourist land. they think the people are backwards and dont fit in but market the destination with them. Radicalized dispossesion: trying to remove the native people from the land for their own gain