SOAN 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visual Anthropology, Cultural Relativism, Inuit

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3680
• Professor: Sally Humphries

Document Summary

Main emphasis of last lecture was importance of cultural relativism and the. Crisis in development field occurring in late 1980s. Notion that modernization has failed and marxist dependency theories have tension it creates for anthro(cid:495)s failed. Then we start hearing about importance of participation. View of development from 5 women (cid:498)fellow travellers in development(cid:499) by rosalind eyben. Ex of a story from (cid:494)aid land(cid:495) She was trying to get the 4 others(cid:495) stories about development friends) She chose women she does not know at all (bc its hard to get good info from. One woman makes contact w 5 others, working together in 1970s in dev field. These women all went to uni in the uk in 1960s (small elite group of women, only 2% of women at this time went to uni) These women were special, although they still did not get proper jobs; they were primarily wives.