ANTH 4340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Worst-Case Scenario Series, Big Umbrella, Radical Feminism
18 Apr 2021
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Citizen of the chickasaw nation and cultural anthropologist. Research has focused on indigenous politics, legal anthropology, human rights, gender, and activist research, predominantly in mexico. Speed takes this concept of activist research and presents it as a way to merge cultural critique with political action to produce knowledge that is empirically grounded, theoretically valuable, and ethically viable. Speed introduced us to an ongoing debate in anthropology related to human rights and this is one that we will be engaging with a lot more next week. For speed the jist of this debate is whether there is such a thing as universal human rights or whether respect for cultural variation prevents such a thing from being identified or achieved. This debate is characterized as the universalism vs cultural relativism debate: she presents this debate as one that cannot be solved and one that well it can be productive can also lead to stagnation.
