Political Anthropology – Flashcards
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Political Anthropology
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study of social power in human societies
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General concepts to political anthropology
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power, ideology, biopower, governmentality, domination, hegemony
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Ideology
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a worldview that justifies the social arrangement under which people live, is a common way for political structures to gain their legitimacy(legitimacy is when one questions weather something is lawful or permitted)
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Foucault
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developed concepts of biopower and governmentality. (Fun fact: Foucault argued that it is easier and more effective to dominate people in their minds than to try to control their bodies)
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Biopower
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forms of power preoccupied with bodies, both the bodies of citizens and the social body of the state itself
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Governmentality
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the art of governing appropriately to promote the welfare of populations within a state
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Marx
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argued that people who accept an ideology domination by ruling class were suffering from false consciousness
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Gramsci
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developed the concept of hegemony for a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination (this is the way its meant to be)
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Gramsci prison note book
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Gramsci was imprisoned by Mussolini as a political dissident where he wrote what have come to be known as the Prison Notebooks
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Hegemony
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social order in which subordinates accept hierarchy as "natural"
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Wolfs types of powers
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interpersonal, organizational, structural
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Interpersonal
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person to person, imposing his/her will on another person
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Organizational
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specific social setting; individual or groups limiting the actions of other people in a specific social setting
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Structural
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organizing social settings in order to control the distribution of social labor
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Three phases of the history of political anthropology
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Formative era Classic era New era
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Formative era(1851-1939)
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first mention on political affairs
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Classic era(1942-1971)
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effects of modernization. Focus in Africa
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New era(1970s-)
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power and inequality in the context of globalization
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Key fact: Countries with low-income economies bear the highest burden of disasters
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Greater percentage of population dies Greater economic cost relative to gross domestic product (GDP)
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Lipsitz
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Competitive Consumer Citizenship- counter revolution to the civil rights movement and also looked into the military response in hurricane Katrina, which was to take back the city from looters "the insurgency"
