ANTC61H3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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culture shock, how we are situated to one person vs. other cultural assumptions. Type of fieldwork ethnography, practice that shapes knowledge in reality. organisms themselves that are involved virulence. Health improving in the west, other places has gotten worse. Poverty and powerlessness seen globally, for causes of poor health. Powerlessness individuals, subject to power regimes (like colonialism, patriarchal, agri-business) of subject where they are not at heart. Poverty and powerless, is an economic and political issue bm alone cannot solve this problem. Rockefeller foundation helps mostly latin america then elsewhere. discourse of modernization theory (notion that all nations were on a trajectory, like u. s ahead of the trajectory and able to turn back and help other nations to reach there) route to become like western nations. modernity means many things, attitude people take to history and their place in it, attiude towards others. If you see yourself as modern, compare to others as non-modern/traditional.
