ANTH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Truman Doctrine, Eurocentrism
6 Jun 2018
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Monday June 4, 2018
ANTH 212
Introduction
Development: the issues
• Positive change/ progress
• Post WWII – world was transformed
o Traumatized and shocked by violence that was caused
o An attitude emerged – we need to think about what can be done in our world to
prevent these acts of violence to stop happening
▪ United nations creation, resource sharing
o Truman doctrine – president announces that the USA has a responsibility to lead
the world into development – this did not propose solutions but also created
problems
▪ The idea of development have made people poor
• History of development policy
o Terms – first world, second, third world – these terms are not popular use
instead global north and global south
o Things that can be quantified
Anthropology
• Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the
humanities→ very humanistic
• People from developed countries were sent out to study how people that are under
colonial rule lived
o Interest in ruling over these people
• Anthro is disredited for eing Euroentri and eing a white disipline
o Gender issues continue to be very significant
o Creates this relationship of them and of an us
o Anthropology- especially in the mid 20th century looked at societies as islands –
problematic reprocution of people
• Socio-cultural dimensions
o Politics of representation / challenges that affect them and how we make sense
of them through film and literature
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