ANTA02H3 Final: Final Class
Document Summary
What can we do as anthropologists: solving three kinds of "problems" o o o. Culture: theory ; why do they do it: clinical research, business, citizenship, immigration, social planning, etc. research, practical applications of ethnography. Public anthropology: anthropology for a broader audience. Article on katrina as an example of public anthropology: used this specific event to understand the political/social/economic structures of america o o o. Levies broke, flooding the poorest neighborhoods, couldn"t get out/lost everything o. Explanations for why these individuals didn"t leave were that they. "were stupid" etc. not the structural inequalities o. Looking at where blame was placed: not on perpetrators but victims in this case o. People who were most likely to experience damage were the most likely to be unable to rebuild or escape: katrina and the collective unconscious o. Will to see a dark threat in new orleans. Slippage in media: for a while people spoke about the "refugees" from.
