AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural Relativism, Ethnography, Ethnocentrism
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Many projects of international development have failed for not taking into account the culture in which they were elaborated. Project of agricultural program: the anthropologists facilitate a constant dialogue between the farmers and agricultural scientists, which had very different perspectives one from another (cf. textbook p. 352-355). Projects of humanitarian aid after natural disasters: dr. alicia sliwinski, Canadian international development agency (cida) milk cows projects in peru in the 1970s. International development projects of domesticating wild pigs in hunting societies of the amazon. The term medical" does not refer specifically to the field of medicine" as it is defined in the west. Medical here points to a wider array of concerns that relate more broadly to human ideas of well-being, health, illness and disease. We commonly tend to see a binary opposition between medical systems based on traditional knowledge and those based on modern" western science. Contemporary social anthropologists tend to move beyond such either/or" approaches:
