Why I love anthropolgy

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Sarah Elgohary
Anthropology Exam 


Part B:

2) Gregory’s role orientation consisted of many ideas. One of his main points was to study the effects of tourism as an industry of wealth and how it effects the globalization of goods and resources in this free marked economy. In order to complete his analysis of capitalistic behavior of the global economy and how the relationship between the consumer and the consumption of goods that is provided. He went to study how people live in the Dominican Republic more specifically Boca Chica and the set tourism industry. During his study Steve Gregory focused on studying the poor lower class citizens who were struggling to live in their society. While he was in Boca Chica he studied the division of labor in the Dominican Republic he wanted to see how the lower and middle class citizens see themselves in the social hierarchy of the Dominican Republic will the ones who have the power are the ones who own the hotels and are in the tourism police. In Boca Chica there is an industry of sex tourism in which the men have to pay the sex workers who run the hotels if they want to have an affair with them. Steve Gregory went to a hustler party which was a party for all the men in Boca Chica to socialize at bars with other men to dance, drink, take advantages of women and have sex with young teenagers. It symbolizes power for the men and dominance of the men over women in Boca Chica society. 
    Another concept that Steve Gregory emphasized in his entire ethnography and probably the most important concept of the title of his was the concept of The Devil Behind the Mirror. The Devil Behind the Mirror is a metaphor that Steve Gregory used to describe the relationship between people buying products and services from the global free market capitalistic system we have. According to Steve Gregory the concept of the Devil Behind the Mirror implies two aspects of our global capitalistic system. The first concept is the mirror and who is behind it. As far as who is seen in the mirror, it is the seductive lure of commodities in society. In other words, the object seen behind the mirror is really how society, businesses and corporations and the whole market system get people to buy products that they don’t even need. People in our society only buy products from the Free Market System based on needs. The 99 percent of society, consisting of the lower and middle class most of the time, cannot afford to buy the new laptop, iPhone, or any other new commodities. They buy these products because of the way they are advertised. The way corporations advertised products, is that they lure you in and make you hooked on a product; you have to have it, even if you cannot afford it or want it. The mirror is the motivation and seductive pull that convinces people to buy products. The “devil” is in society to show the relationship between the consumer and consumption of goods or services in society. According to Gregory, the concept of the devil means the corporation or big business relates to global capitalism because this idea happens all over the world. There are always going to be people who want to buy products because of the advertisements, or because of how the product may look. The way people are lured in to favor a product enough to buy it is when people spend money in our capitalistic society whether or not they have the resources and money to do so. On the other hand, corporations will make money even if people do not buy the product because they provided a lot of evidence to show the concept of the devil behind the mirror. An example would be when tourism actually pays people in the Dominican Republic and Boca Chica, because it is a big industry in the area. Tourists, go to vendor where they are sold products, so that the business can make money. The people who own the tourism industry want to lure the tourists in so they buy from the vendor.
    Steve Gregory was personally positioned in his study of global capitalism he sided with the lower class and middle class citizen people who were in poverty he wanted to help them gain more power in society. An example of this would be when one jewelry vendor was arguing with the president of the vendor union about the fact that she did want the Dominican Republic to build a power plant because she thought it would stop the power outages from happening in the Dominican Republic, but the president of the union was arguing with her because he said that the power plant will not stop the power outages. The power outages only happen because the people with power want the lower class citizens to pay taxes in order for them to have power. Steve Gregory even though he sided with the lower class citizens the people in poverty he took a very critical view on this issue because anthropologists are not supposed to be biased in the institute they are only supposed to have an objective point of view on the subject and research they are doing in their ethnographies. 

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