ANTHR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Forensic Anthropology, Ramesses Ii, Clyde Snow
6 Apr 2015
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Practicing or applied anthropology: the branch of anthropology that concerns itself with applying anthropological knowledge to achieve practical goals, usually in the service of an agency outside the traditional academic setting. Development anthropology: one of the main subfields of applied or practicing anthropol-ogy, aimed at improving people"s lives, particularly decreasing poverty and hunger. Debra picchi raised questions about the long- term effects on the bakair indians of a program by the brazilian. National indian foundation ( funai) to produce rice with machine technology. They had a slash-and-burn horticulture with supplementary cattle rasing, fishing, and hunting. ~150 people and they were given a small reserve that was mostly parched and infertile (cerrado). When their population begain to increase, funai introduced a scheme to plant rice on unused cerrado land using machinery, insecticides, and fertilizer. Funai paid costs for first year and expected cheme would self-support by third year.
