Anthropology of Development Lecture 4 Flashcards

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Anthropology of Development

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Development as a window through which insights on social change, power, discourse and knowledge can be expanded.

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Kertzer 1980s

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Residents of Bologna describes immigrants as ‘too lazy to work and so lacking in willpower that they spawn hoards of children; as welfare dependent illiterate and violent bad people’

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AoD is aggressive

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Not necessarily, specifically designed to help development and applied anthropology.

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Theorising development

-Hegemony

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Hegemony is particularly disastrous because it prevents people from resisting effectively. Incorporates the ideas of rulers, cannot think for themselves, cannot imagine alternatives.

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Main eras according to AoD’s:

Critique of social change (1850’s-1970’s)

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How do social institutions and social structures change over time? Can change be controlled?

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Main eras according to AoD’s:

Silence 1970’s

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-Rise of applied anthropology and development theory

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Main eras according to AoD’s:

Post-structuralist critique of development 1980’s -2000’s

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  • Focas on discourse
  • Reflective
  • Post-modern, interested in knowledge and power
  • Generally argues for non-intervention
  • Scathing critique of Development Anthropology
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Focus on development as a project (society)

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  • How social structures, like economy, political structures, kinship, shift through time.
  • Resistance as structural
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Focus on development as identity (Culture)

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  • How our ways of perceiving development are political and help reproductive inequality (discourse).
  • Resistance as discursive
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Understanding social change:

Diffusionism

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Societies will adopt better ideas and technologies from neighbours.

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Understanding social change:

Structural-Functionalism

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No historical change. Focus is on how society functions at a given time.

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Understanding social change:

Structuralism

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An exercise to find the most elementary and universal binaries and structures of thought.

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Understanding social change:

Social Evolutionism

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Idea that societies evolve according to set stages…Change often related to internal intellectual processes.

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Silent years

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Gradual decline in the theorization of development due to:

  • Fewer groups in academia, more in applied anthropology.
  • Applied anthro had some remarkable victories and thought that anthro should offer practical tips not theories
  • Applied anthos actually acting on main complaints AoDs has of development meaning theories won’t work don’t need anthropologists.
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