ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Lecture 34Outline of Last LectureI. Modern Projects ct’dII. Medical AnthropologyIII. How Does Culture Affect Public/Private Space?IV. Problems of Hope: Emerging Anthropologically (GG)Outline of Current LectureI. Grown in DetroitII. Public and private spaceIII. Deriving State PowerIV. Cultural Features of TimeV. KinshipVI. GenderCurrent Lecture4/16: Hourly Exam 3 ReviewI. Grown in Detroita. The making of individual identityi. What does it take to gain a better understanding of identity?1. Attention to very particular circumstances and histories, not simply abstract notions like “the State”ii. Why does architecture matter?II. Public and private spacea. Different for everybody depending on who you are, where you liveb. These different meanings help create our identityc. Public space is regulated – you have to belong in order to be able to use the public spaced. Surveillance gives ability of you to watch yourself, doesn’t necessarily mean you are always being watchedi. Don’t need a police officer present – just an empty police car causes changes in behaviore. In Getting Ghosti. Public and private space blurred by the drug tradeii. Homes versus spotsIII. Deriving State Powera. The state as an idea versus the state as an administrative systemThese 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.i. The power to withhold information contributes to the idea of the state as a singular entity1. State can keep information from the general public, decide what people can and can’t do, makes us want to do itii. What does this have to do with identity and belonging?1. What features of ourselves and self-identities are derived from ourexistence as creatures of the state?IV. Cultural Features of Timea. How is time comnstructed differently from different standpointsi. Homogenous time: mechanical, measured construction of time of industrial production1. Idea that time can be wasted, used badlyii. Rhythmic, cyclical construction of non-industrial peasant view of timeV. Kinshipa. Know kinship chart symbolsi. Identify who people are in relationship to others1. Lineal 2. Bifurcate Merging3. GenerationalVI. Gendera. Three ways to approach sex/genderi. Defined by social roles (based on biological binaries – men/women)1. Women should be able to vote, etc.ii. Focus on cultural construction – how meaning is applied to sexual differenceiii. Gender as the “performance” of sexual differenceb. Most common sexes male/femalec. Others, less common: herm-, ferm-,
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