AAAD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Developing Country, Victim Blaming, Monogamy
17 Dec 2016
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Week 8 gender and human rights (oct. 11) Excerpts from nisa: life and words of a !kung. Study of a nomadic tribe, follows their journey into settlements. Extrapolating from individual stories a broader understanding of the cultural and social world. Identify the social issues you think most relevant to your subject. Using interviews about life experiences to understand gender relations, sexuality, family life, ritual life. Week 8 gender and human rights (oct. 13) Difference between epidemic in us and uganda. Married, heterosexual women most at risk, affected everyday average people. Openness towards talking about it, everyone"s problem. Simultaneous long term sexual partners and relationships. dramatically increases web of sexual partners and transmits disease. Contrast to serial monogamy on the west. Did reduce # of long term partners people were having, but didn"t eliminate the practice. Key to successful intervention was local knowledge. Working together, addressing it as a community. Early success had little to do with outside intervention.
