SA 402 Lecture 2: Week 2_ Debates on Applied, Public, and Engaged Anthropology
21 Dec 2020
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Non-academic, against exclusive forms of writing (elitism) Eg. contest environmental racism, how poc communities are. Takes values as part of design of research project impacted by toxic waste sites. Goal of social transformation on behalf of those with less power. Uses ethnographic methods to address a population"s problems/issues. Uses anth as a tool in the public. Looks at violence and effects on victims. Could encourage researchers to shine a light on violence/injustice they witness in their fieldwork. Legitimates actions of anths in favor of ppl among whom they are conducting observations. Argument: once we try to identify evil, we enter the political process and abandon anthropology. Scheper-hughes - anths have the responsibility to act, particularly in situations of violence or conflict. Diff b/w cultural relativism vs. moral relativism. Understand ppl on their own terms first. Suspend personal notions of how to think, what to do, etc. Anths often worked in countries under colonial rule.
