ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zande People, People Smuggling, Philosophy Of Science
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Hinduism vs. islam originally interconnected: people worshiped together, same places, etc. Europe comes in to study the religions and separates them by defining them differently. Which in turn causes a division in india, as the 2 groups became distinct from each other. More knowledge produced about religion in india became incorporated into the gov. British became more intimately involved in their life which led to more knowledge produced and continued the cycle. Subject to discourses that worked to refashion . Scientific analysis of hierarchy that serves the british to reorder society in india. Negative judgements . justified their more enlightened form of rule. Usa now operates very similarly to the me in the way that the brit. did in. Iraq most literacy, most educated populous (phds) before war. Anorexia: many women die is us, almost none die in afghanistan. Hot, skinny women are used in the sale of almost all products. Generalization : denies differences across the field of surveys.
