Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Phatic Expression, Nepotism, Hashish
5 Feb 2018
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Anthro 4400 feb 5th 2018 notes on reading phatic labor, infrastructure, and the question of empowerment in cairo . I don"t like women"s talk was a sentiment heard often from men working in small industrial workshops. They were doing women"s work (textiles) but didn"t want women around unless they were buyers. Women stuck to doing house work or going about their daily lives without men. They visit many friends and family around the city. Women"s empowerment began in 1990s with thought that micro nance was extremely popular in the development world. Many egyptian female anthropologists helped fund ngos. Telecom companies investing in the booming cell-phone business in egypt (and elsewhere) studied the social networks or poor women and men to better design their products and marketing plans. Perhaps the popular classes pretended to support empowerment of women to get access to the resources provided for this purpose.
