Historical Anthropologists Flashcards
What was Morgan’s anthropological view?
Morgan believed that mankind commenced their career at the bottom of the scale and work their way up from savagery to civilization through the slow act cumulation of experimental knowledge
What do we need to grasp about Hegel?
How objectification demands thought beyond the subject.
What is cultural evolutionism?
This slow transformation of society through time
What does Marx’ tell us about commodities?
Marx says that the commodity is any good or service produced by human labor and offered as a product for general sale on the market.
What does Marx tell us about his ideas of objectification?
He said that there was an objectification of labor within the objects in society.
What is use-value and what is exchange-value?
Use value is a value in something that one can use in their life. Like trading plumbing services for massage services. Exchange value is a value for an object which can be exchanged for something that can be used in your life. For example money is an object which holds exchange value.
What is congealed Labor time?
All commodities are only definite masses of congealed labor time. A commodity is a substance or manufactured good all costs are labor costs them out of Casa takes to mine produce manufacture market any good or quantities of labor time if you add up all the quantities of labor time he becomes a lump sum of costs the congealed sum of costs is then exchanged for capital accumulation by the buyer of the commodity.
What is commodity fetishism?
In Marxist theory, commodity fetishism is a state of social relations, said to arise in complex capitalist market systems, in which social relationships are defined by the values that are placed on commodities. Social relations in capitalist societies where are transformed into purely objective relationships between commodities or money instead of with other people.
Capitalists “fetishize” commodities, believing that they contain value, and in turn the effects of labor, and the relationship with laborers are misunderstood, because citizens come to value the commodity more than the relationship with others, especially those who work to produce the object.
What is stratification?
Social stratification is a concept involving the classification of people into groups based on their socio economic conditions
What is alienation in the workplace?
Alienation was a product of manufacturism and fordism as people started to work on one particular specific part of the final product they became more and more segregated from human interaction with others
What does Veblen exam?
He examines mass consumption and notices fashion and the social order how the elite class publicly displays their wealth and lack of work through conspicuous consumption and leisure. He notices stratification private property and wealth developing as a product of mass consumption.
How is exchanged abstracted through the use of money?
Exchange becomes the trading of use value item with an item holding only exchange value
But does the materialist school of thought consider?
Considers the material culture in relation to the tail resources, layover, production, exchange and consumption. Stuff made meaningful because it sustains life and society, is capable of three producing and transforming social relations, and mediates and differential interests and values of social groups
What is structuralism?
the underlying structures of culture and how these are symbolized in practices. These structures are presents among the many different cultures around the world. Ex. Nature vs culture. Marriage practices. Incest taboo
What is semiotics?
Semiotics is concerned with how the meaning is communicated through sign systems and demands attention to the context of interpretation. For example only someone of the yolongu can understand the sign systems presents in thier art. Objects have different meaning to their original culture than they would to an alien culture
