L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Practical Reason, Martha Nussbaum, Arthur Kleinman
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Image by kevin carter, south african photojournalist (1993) During sudanese famine in 1993 in camp held by who. Won pulitzer prize for best photo that year. Vulture in picture symbolizes and impending death. The vulture seems to be the focal point instead of the famished child. Evocative of the unicef ads we saw- what is the context? face/nonface of global health. Child and vulture have something in common share a kind of scarce hunger. Circumstances under which the authorization for the picture of the child to be taken. Landscape of desolation, and lack of habitation, no families/communities; radical nature. Draws a sense of wanting to know what is going on with the child. We see vulture"s face but not child"s dehumanization. Story of global health and in individual"s mental health. The distribution of world income to richest and the poorest. Suffering, exploitation, equality, fairness, justice, human rights.
