ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Ethnography
24 Mar 2016
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The ethnography of human rights anth222 lecture notes. Insituional ethnography: emphasis on experts in their own milieu, familiarly, bureaucracy, and other ness (knowledge pracices, studying up emphasis on inluenial actors universals, like human rights, in local pracice, emphasis on experts as interveners and mediators, vernacularizaion sally. Anthropology is known for its tendency to focus on social microcosms, and the microcosm that i as an anthropologist have chose to study is the world . In this new venture, in its regular meeings between indigenous and state representaives, it has created an original insituional space consituing a disinct social world. Ifc, bank"s private sector, openly adopted a human rights agenda as part of a risk management approach under a market based operaional logic. Approach translate internaional human rights norms for the business community by deining potenial human rights violaions as strategic risks, which many damage a company"s reputaion, threaten its proits, and lead to potenial liigaion.
