#anthro notes

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09 January 2022

Anthro notes again (in the graduate library). It's a beautiful day today and the sun streaming through the windows is turning everything golden.

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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts & Monsters of the Anthropocene edited by Anna Tsing // Art by Angela Deane

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Anthro Notes Cultural Relativism (Comment on a Student Writing Raising Solid Question)

Understanding cultural relativism does not as much demand us to suspend all our value judgments (that would not be possible). Rather, cultural relativism means we know our value judgments are not the end of the conversation, that other people in different cultures do it differently, and their ways are not necessarily inferior or less developed once. The irony is of course that the idea of cultural relativism is also cultural and also that adopting a position of an observer we become outsiders who "know better." Even if this is a "know better not to judge," it is still an all-knowing, impartial, objective outsider position. There is definitely an ouroboric paradox here.

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CLASS FINISHED: ANTHROPOLOGY

HOLIDAY BREAK COMMENCE

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21.02.18 My anthro prof assigned a 25 page paper to read on demography and it’s such dense information my brain keeps thinking about cookies

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“Metaphors are always a double bind; They at once allow us to see and stop our abilities to notice.”

Ladders, Trees, Complexity, and Other Metaphors in Evolutionary Thinking by Andreas Hejnol