Good afternoon,
I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m having sort of a family emergency and I’m going to need to cancel class tonight. I’ve included a revised copy of the syllabus to an email I sent to your OASIS account so that you know what reading to do for class next week. That is, in the “Conformity and Conflict” book you should read:
Unit 7, “Law and Politics,” P. 260-264;
Chapter 24: “Cross-Cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender,” P. 265-273;
And
Chapter 26: “Life without Chiefs,” P. 284-293
On the blog, please respond to one of the questions that are listed at the end of each reading in the book.
I have graded everything of yours except the midterm. If any of you would like to pick up your grades, then you can stop by my office: Rm. 527, 600 S. Michigan Ave., but please call first: 312.369.7768.
Andre
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Gypsies and Chief: Life with and without.
ReplyDelete2. The police found lists of social security numbers in the Gypsy's house and interpreted them as the Gypsy stealing people's social security numbers as a way to buy a car without using his own identity. They thought of it as identity theft. In reality, the culture of the Gypsy man is to use other people in his family's social security number as a way to be unidentifiable to modern society. This is part of the Gypsy culture, and the police did not understand that. It is wrong for the police and the government to have not taken into account how the Gypsy culture operates and to just look at the facts. Everyone has a culture that they have grown up in or assimilated into, and they all have rules and customs, and just because some may not be regarded as okay in the United States, does not mean that we have to be ignorant to the fact that this Gypsy man was just partaking in his culture.
3. Harris states that there is a difference between cultural evolution and biological evolution. He is saying that people are not innately aggressive and want to have war and have superior races or hierarchical divisions. These are all effects of cultural evolution, and he states that a certain amount of control can be places over these things if tried hard enough. If control was placed over cultural evolution, then things like war and superiority could be extinct from the world, but I do not think that could ever happen. The world has so many cultures and so many things are taking place that will have an effect later that we can not possible know how to help all of these things.