L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Gloria Steinem, Muhammad Yunus, Microfinance
5 Dec 2016
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What does development mean: walt rostow. Special advisor for foreign relations to kennedy and johnson. Proposed modern development for post-colonies in 1960s. Supported vietnam war,,, models foreign aid in relation to. Saw the war not as much as a means of containing socialism, but as a means of economic development. Tradition pre take off take off drive to. Maturity age of high mass consumption: looks at world bank development programs in lesotho, hunter-gatherers increasing wage-labor, argued that it was not in tradition- it had long been colonized by britain. Gloria steinem: feminist in 70s, women become sex workers in zambia to raise money to send their children to school. Development intervention to try and remedy this: building an electric fence to protect maize keeps women from sex trafficking for money. With the fence, they could grow maize, sell it and don"t have to sell their bodies: focus on technical/technological, not on structural/historical.
