ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frantz Fanon, Menopause, Deep Wound
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Shifted from a way of life to a disease. One explanation: historical change between two sides almost 50 yrs apart. 2nd explanation: mead was so committed to showing that gender norms could differ in different cultures she made stuff up made it clear to the. Samoan girls she was with that she was eager to hear accounts of unfettered sexuality: the evidence of the elderly taupau. Freeman in his second book finds out from a samoan girl that they made it up what they told mead. Make sure your claims are precise and parsimonious. Long term fieldwork: allows for complexity, shifting perspective, triangulation. Research teams with researchers from different social positions, language abilities, and bodies. Diagnosis: of race, racism, and the color line in the usa. Baldwin in a rap on race says everyone knows about the sufferings of black people, it is not ignorance of white people but the fears of white people.