ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Biopolitics
26 Apr 2018
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3. post 1968 revolution era, when people had become disenchanted with the paradigms of communist thought, casting about a new way of thinking about power relations. The hyphen between, this connection is where foucault situated his interest (1) The control of individuals and the power over how people see and interpret the world. Governmentality: same kind of shift in the idea of power, isn"t just what we associate with government, but is this entire range of control techniques extending to control over peoples thinking, peoples subjectivity. Element of inscrutability, of the unconscious nature of the e ect of disciplinary institutions. Bio-politics: the reach of institutional power into the control of bodies and individuals subjectivity a) b) c) Seen in taking place even through the state programs of human improvement and health improvement. Important in medical anthropology because the idea of power has generative in uences and e ects, producing subjectivities and social relations.
