ANTH-0024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Biosafety, Intensive Animal Farming, Hubris
5 Nov 2016
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Why does this piece matter: potentials have power that we might not even consider, focus on policy- the changing nature of government and planning. Biosecurity-procedures intended to protect humans or animals against disease or harmful biological agents. Since 9/11, the us has put more money toward biosecurity than they did the manhattan project: efforts to contain the us in something deemed inevitable. Cock fights: looking at the intimate connection between people and birds. What is ethnography: an attempt to understand information in an area looking at how people live, gurts- what it means to be human is to live and search for a meaning (within a given culture) The radical point- you are living in a ghetto of chickens. How chickens live today (packed into dense sheds, standing on top of their own waste, all of the waste untreated) is inseparable from how you live. Forms of engineering life in indonesia emerge as a new form of colonialism.
