ANTH 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ethnography, Public Anthropology, Applied Anthropology

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1102
• Professor: Jason Gonzalez

Document Summary

Anthropology has 2 dimensions: academic and applied. Applied anthropology: using anthropology to solve contemporary problems. Identifying needs for change that local people perceive. Collaborating with those people to design culturally appropriate + socially sensitive change. Working to protect local people from harmful policies + projects that may threaten them. Development anthropology: field that examines the sociocultural dimensions of economic development. Increased equity: reduction in absolute poverty, with a more even distribution of wealth. To maximize social and economic benefits, projects must: Involve men + women in planning and carrying out the changes that affect them. Overinnovation: trying to achieve too much change. Motives for changing behavior come from traditional culture + small concerns of ordinary life. Development projects that fail usually are either economically or culturally incompatible or both. Underdifferentiation: seeing less developed countries as all the same; ignoring cultural diversity. Anthropology and education: study of students in the context of their family, peers, and enculturation.