Anthro 205 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Types of Citizenship a Birth b Naturalization II Rights of citizens vs non citizens III Fear of social citizenship IV Reproduction V Race immigration and fertility VI Sterilization of Latino women VII Population explosion Outline of Current Lecture I Nation State a Nation b State II III Reproduction a In the Italian culture b Laws Organ Donation 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 a Nancy Scheper Hughes b Commodity Fetishism c Marx View d Nancy s Interpretation Current Lecture Embodied Inequalities Nation State o Nation A community understood to be on shared and relatively homogenous cultural ethic identity o State A politically organized community and territory o Nation State Idea that nation and state should coincide OBS Nation is from the Latin root natio meaning to be born which underscores the importance of reproduction The human body has long been a metaphor for the nation The dimension of reproduction is more than just numbers Law that restricts fertility alternatives in Italy even though there are in a reproductive crisis Why would this happen o Reproduction in the Italian culture is about the idea of the ideal family the relationship between the body and nation boundaries reproduction o Donor gametes are illegal frozen embryos are illegal only married heterosexual couples could have babies o According to Italian Culture using these alternatives confused the lineage of the family and introduced an alien to the family Organ Donation o Even when migrants are in the nation and part of it on paper the population does not consider them citizens o Organ donation and black market Nancy Scheper Hughes very controversial person in anthropology very straight forward o Organs in the black market usually come from people that don t have many choices who are forced to donate or tricked to donate or make a contract to donate and receive money Usually done by people with no health care education and usually from poor backgrounds o There are health and social consequences o From the Poor to the Rich Who deserves to get organs Commodity Fetishism Organs as commodities in global capitalism Marx perspective of Commodity Fetishism We disconnect the value of the object from the human labor put into the production of such object o Nancy argues that organs are treated in the same way