Two interesting links

[undergroundpanther]

About reciprocation in a socio-psycho- athropological context.:

"In highly marketized societies, careful, intelligent, competitive maximizers of personal gain, unfettered by sentiment or scruple, can do very well for themselves. Certain restrictions on competition are enforced (CEOs of other software companies can't have Bill Gates assassinated), but these have very little culture-specific content, and continual efforts are made to remove any lingering specificity. It's not so much that markets make people into Homo economicus, but that they present situations which evoke behavior that resembles his, and reward it. (In experimental Prisoner's Dilemma games, subjects tend to cooperate if the game is called "Community" and defect if it's "Wall Street.")" read more...

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bulletins/bulletinFall99/features/homoReciprocans.html

And: Anthropology and Resistance...

“The other promise of anthropology, one less fully distinguished and attended to the the first, has been to serve as a form of cultural critique for ourselves. In using portraits of other cultural patterns to reflect self-critically on our own ways, anthropology disrupts common sense and makes us reexamine our taken-for-granted assumptions.”(1)

This is our starting point. We hope to utilize anthropology as a tool for social analysis which will help create social theories of resistance. This site looks at issues of power, exploitation, and resistance in the realms of economics, political and intellectual authority. We use anthropological theory as a social critique, but we also explore the intellectual authority within anthropology, and extend our exploration into popular culture as an avenue of both production of modern culture and resistant to cultural hegemony.

http://www.geocities.com/anthropologyresistance/

Enjoy!
U Panther

[NJCher]

1. love the illustration on the first one

Reading now...thanks for posting them. This is one of my favorite topics.


Cher