ANTA02H3 Lecture 12: Anthropology is Good to Think With

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11 Apr 2011
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Three problems anthropologists are ewuipped to solve: ethnogrophaic skills (documenting behavior) what people do. 2. concepts: analytic skills (what does this behaviour mean?: culture: theory related skills (why do they do it) How the ideas and worldviews of one culture relates to another culture. Dramatic changes in society can result from anthropological infleuences. Thinking about problems in new or unique ways. Applied anthropology in government (hate related crimes and their understanding), health care, business, ngo"s. Sam dunn: anthropoligst who looked at the gender-dness of metal clture; in the way it seems masculine. The success led to the cration of global metal" where he travelled to unlikely places where one might not perceive to have a heavy metal fanbase (kenya, india etc) Katrina and it"s doubles: (nancy shepher hughes) :shifted from adadecmic anthro. To public anthropology and that anthropologists have: step in and have a voice in terms of poverty and stuff.

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