Social Stratification and Health in the Western Context

Sinha, Arushi; Gibbs, Tyson

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“…In this light it becomes clear that the antagonisms among Lesotho's citizenry are a product of planned and rationalized social engineering. Indeed, inequalities and human miseries are not natural results of biological inheritance (American Anthropological Association 2007:107; Sinha and Gibbs 2004:198), and it is up to us to expose their roots in any given setting. In Lesotho, as in so many other settings, they are byproducts of negotiated and engineered forms of socioeconomic organization exercised as “technical expertise” with the goal of coordinating local economies into properly functioning markets in ways that create the potential, at least, for domination (Bohman 2005:60).…”

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Modernity, Tradition and Nuances of Class in Lesotho

Turkon¹

2009

City & Society

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Anthropological studies of identity commonly focus on culture, religion and ethnicity as bases for self identification and affiliation. This focus has come at the expense of broader foci such as class. Based on fieldwork in culturally homogeneous Lesotho, in this article I demonstrate how, in the wake of economic and political modernization, class consciousness has become a salient criteria for identity formation among Basotho in ways that are linguistically marked and culturally reconciled. Analyzing class consciousness provides a framework for understanding ways that urban, state, regional and global ideologies inform rural culture. Social scientists, especially anthropologists, should compliment post-modern analysis of incommensurable social identities with class analysis, as a basis for analyzing the cross cultural effects of modernization in national as well as localized settings. [

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Modernity, Tradition and Nuances of Class in Lesotho

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2009

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Social Stratification and Health in the Western Context

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Modernity, Tradition and Nuances of Class in Lesotho

Modernity, Tradition and Nuances of Class in Lesotho

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