ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Cultural Relativism, Biculturalism, Anthropocene
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Today we are going to organize our discussion that will help us develop our analysis for our essay. Question: your roommate sees you reading a future for amazonia and challenges you to tell him/her what an anthropological approach to the environment is and what it has to offer to an analysis of conservation more generally. More specifically, use the cofan example to explain why attention to cultural values might matter for (1) conservation science or (2) in the context of ngo-work. You may, when answering this question, only focus on either part (1) or (2). This is about relationship between culture and conservation science/ ngo: conflict, cooperation, transformational. You have to make an argument why culture is significant. What are some anthropological concepts that might be relevant to use in the essay: holism, agency. Identity: anthropocene, ta: culture (as a set of meaningful practices embedded in social relations), cultural relativism, biculturalism, use these concepts as analytical tools.
