AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Applied Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Legal Anthropology
AN100 - Lecture 2 - Anthropology Matters: Applied Anthropology Part 2
Applied Anthropology
- Application of anthropological knowledge to practical problem solving or “putting
knowledge into practice”
How can anthropological perspective be used outside of academia?
- Indigenous issues
- Fighting for their rights (ex land rights, human rights)
- Legal anthropology
- Who gets lighter sentences? Why?
- Culture as defense
- Political Ecology
- Climate change impacts on different communities
- Medical anthropology
- Corporate ethnography (business)
- Applied anthropology
Types of Applied Anthropology
- Adjustment
- Increasing the predictability of social interaction among those who operate with
different cultural codes
- Ex peace corps volunteers are advised on the cultural codes of Botswana
- Administrative
- Uses knowledge for planned change by those external to the local group
- Ex an anthropologist provides knowledge to a mayor about the culture of
constituents (being part of a whole)
- Action
- Uses knowledge for planned change by the local cultural groups
- Ex medical anthropologist in Malawi is a catalyst for change but leaves decisions
to the community that will be affected by the outcome
- Advocate
- Anthropologists use their knowledge to increase power of cultural groups to
make changes themselves
- Ex James Spradley released his study of tramps (beggars) to the Seattle
newspaper in order to help the tramps gain power against authorities
- Corporate Ethnography
- Good advertising and good business practices
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Document Summary
An100 - lecture 2 - anthropology matters: applied anthropology part 2. Application of anthropological knowledge to practical problem solving or putting knowledge into practice . Fighting for their rights (ex land rights, human rights) Increasing the predictability of social interaction among those who operate with different cultural codes. Ex peace corps volunteers are advised on the cultural codes of botswana. Uses knowledge for planned change by those external to the local group. Ex an anthropologist provides knowledge to a mayor about the culture of constituents (being part of a whole) Uses knowledge for planned change by the local cultural groups. Ex medical anthropologist in malawi is a catalyst for change but leaves decisions to the community that will be affected by the outcome. Anthropologists use their knowledge to increase power of cultural groups to make changes themselves. Ex james spradley released his study of tramps (beggars) to the seattle newspaper in order to help the tramps gain power against authorities.
