ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Bipolar Disorder, Tanya Luhrmann, Sudhir Venkatesh
Document Summary
Ethics and anthropological engagement: book focuses on questions of violence, degradation, and how to represent these, not turning them into heroes, showing the humanity of these righteous dopefiends . Line between field (work) and job becomes blurry. Emphasis on as an anthropologist, you"re supposed to watch and not intervene: the texts and images we [anthropologists] present to the world are often profoundly disturbing. When we report and write in an intimate way about scenes of violence, genocide, and extreme social suffering, our readers have the right to react with anger and to ask just what we are after? (scheper-hughes and bourgois 2003) Violence" is a slippery concept that goes beyond physicality to include assaults on self- respect and personhood. The social and cultural dimensions of violence are what give it its force and meaning (scheper-hughes and bourgois 2004: concept of structural violence farmer"s concept embedded with the idea that:
