ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Social Science, Conservation Movement, Cultural Relativism
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What does anthropology contribute to discussions of human rights and social justice: essay/human rights. We have to see cultures i their context as equally valid as our own. Imposing a view on someone else, universalistic approach, is problematic. Liberal/neoliberal model of the individual: all very individualistic. Only someone in relation to someone else: as soon as we cut all social relations, we cease to exist. In particular idea of western individualistic notion of personhood, this isn"t true. Other cultures do not see this way. Don"t come into existence until you are in a relationship with someone else. Do not actually become who we are until we engage in social relations. I am who i am because of an inherent relationship to mother and large kinship network. Kinship and naming gave particular location in social world. People who think of themselves as social networks vs. individual networks.
