ANTH 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ethnography, Occupy Nigeria, Population Pyramid
9 Apr 2018
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Have used the social media to make their advocacy & rights & desires heard. Final change: the take home will be available on the friday 2nd, still due on wednesday 7th, 400 words per response. Govs in africa have been unable to keep up with new social media. Anthropological discourses on youth: victims, vandals, vanguard. Defining youth and how challenging that is. Africa: case studies from the reading, case studies from jennie"s ethnography. Over 75% of africa"s population is under 35. Youth bulge: either seen as an opportunity, a potential, or a risk factor for social unrest. Danger: large scale unemployment and dissatisfaction bomb for social uprising. First understanding of youth in anthropology - structuralist anthropology (evans. Pritchard): youth first described as in a liminal stage. Liminal stage = means in between phase. African (cid:498)youth crisis(cid:499) of 1980s leads to 3 prominent discourses: vandal: gangs, violent protests, victim: child soldiers, hiv/aids anthropology would day this is a mistake) contradictions.
