ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Structural Adjustment, Ethnography, United Nations Economic And Social Council
11 Apr 2016
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Gender jusice and cultural values anth222 reading notes. Merry sally engle, human rights and gender violence chapter 2,5. United naions is a transnaional social space where acions come together simultaneously as locally embedded people and as paricipants in a transnaional seing that has its own norms, values, and cultural pracices. Representaives bring their paricular issues into a global conservaion. Yet each paricipant also inhabits local places in ny and geneva, deined by a culture of modernity, an english-speaking, largely secular, universalisic, law governed culture, organized around the formal equality donaions and their economic and poliical inequality. Debates were ime consuming and opaque and slow, seemingly irrelevant. Typical debate where the focus of discussion is paricular phrases and the outcome is a long and turgid sentence but important poliical issues lurk under the bland discussion about terminology. Ongoing disagreement concerned the portrayal of women"s role in the family.
