ANT 1001 Lecture 7: 9/8/16
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9/8 anthropology: what is vernacularization, vernacularization is the translation, so to speak, of transnationally conceived beliefs and practices so that they might be understood and adopted by smaller, culturally varied communities. In the article, she applies this concept to violence against women. While ideas such as abuse and sexual assault seem inherently evil in western culture, areas such as india and fiji have very different ideas about appropriate treatment of women. Concretized: critique- merry uses an entirely top-down approach. The thought that global knowledge trickles down to small communities is not completely true. A culture adopts a concept from global stage b. iii.
