ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sherwood Washburn, Nacirema, American Anthropologist
13 May 2016
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The use of data gathered from the other subfields of anthropology in an effort to offer practical solutions to problems within modern societies. People who work outside of academia, will work for governments, development agencies, (un, who) corporations (google, starbucks, apple) Penny van esterik and research on breastfeeding in developing nations like. Nestle was targeting people who lived in rural activities who didn"t have enough money to afford the formula so they resorted to prostitution. As well, these women did not live in clean places, so the water was contaminated which made the babies sick. Came to the conclusion that breast milk is still the best solution. It is important in anthropology to apply cultural relativism to the people we study and work with. There is an assumption that the people who are primitive and exotic are uncivilized. They are untouched by time or technology. On a lower stage of evolution, very loaded.
