ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I. Strategies of Anthropological Observation (Familiarizing and Defamiliarizing) II. How do we make cultural life visible? (Interpretation and Juxtaposition) III. Universal vs. Particular Aspects of Human Life IV. Laura Bohannan: "Shakespeare in the Bush" (Ethnocentrism)Outline of Current Lecture I. Getting Ghost: An IntroductionII. Production of Cultural DifferenceCurrent LectureProductions of Cultural Difference**Will post most of review guides for first exam early this week **Submit questions about exam to GSI or Prof. Chivens he will go over them in the review lecture (before the exam)  Frame questions with what you know and where you’ve looked for the answer, then what you’re not sure about (to show that you have made some effort)I. Getting Ghost: An Introductiona. Project developed from story about juvenile detention to story about drug dealing cultureb. Ethnographies often leave out institutions that might seem important (school, etc.) because they don’t contribute much to the overall purpose of the piecec. How do we form identities within our cultural circumstances?d. How does GG fit into anthropology? i. Not all anthropology is found in non-west areas – GG is specific to anthropology because of ethnographic methodologyii. No “high and low” cultures – social categories are formed from within communitiese. How do individuals find purpose in the world in circumstances that we don’t create but we do participate in?f. Social space: the way physical, geographical space is divided along lines of race, economic advantages/disadvantages, etc. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.g. What is it really about?i. Levels of Engagement1. A global story about forming identity, but created by following/studying individuals and groups in a certain place2. Study of Detroit, but reveals a truth about any sort of community being shaped by social divisionsii. Find statements where Bergmann pans out what he thinks he is doing, what he thinks the story is about1. pg. 75 “drug dealing…” seeing drug dealing as a structural response to history2. pg. 72 “about who gets to say what a community is…”3. Protest of the liquor store: community he is looking at is not reallya community, but a set of social differencesh. Disjunctive History: (pg. 2) refers to a history that is divided and you can see in the environment where those divisions occurredi. Gentrification: displacement of communities along the lines of development and racej. “Neoliberal” and “Shareholder” Citizens (15): who has stake in the community? Interests of business takes precedence, so residents don’t necessarily have the same level of citizenship II. Production of Cultural Divisions (from the perspective of social policy) a. Video: The House We Live In (from the series Race: The Power of an Illusion, v.3)i. How have past policy decisions and events shaped social, racial, and ethnic inequality in the United States?1. Government lending policies and the invention of the mortgage systemii. Veterans needed homes, in 1930s gov. created Federal Housing Administration to provide loans to average people so they could actually own their homes iii. New communities, suburbs sprang up outside big cities 1. Racial discrimination in suburbs, said they couldn’t sell to African Americans – claimed that presence of colored families would undervalue the community 2. Government gave safety ratings to cities, areas – gave highest ratings to white neighborhoods, lowest ratings to minority areas 3. Gov. spent more money building houses in highest rated areas iv. President Johnson signed Fair Housing Act – non-white families began integrating, but real-estate agents convinced white families to sell homes at low values to non-white people, so neighborhoods lost value and gained minority families 1. Even if people aren’t personally racist, but they have economic motivation to move out of neighborhoods where African Americans are moving in – then that negativity becomes associated with people of color2. Eventually neighborhoods shut down, had bad schools, became rundown3. Net worth of white families grew, non-white families paid rent, didn’t get equity4. These geographic divisions had long-lasting effects because the white families generating much more wealth for future generations v. When comparing races of people who are of the same economic situation, graduation rates, jobs, etc. are the same – many people don’t consider this, but look at the inequality as a wholevi. Civil Rights Era ended inequality of opportunity – but didn’t address inequalities that were already in