Anthropology of Development - Ferguson

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Anthropology of Development - Ferguson Farmer

• November 5, 2007

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This Week

• Today - development and anthropology, continued -
  Ferguson and Farmer
• Wednesday - Age of AIDS
• Friday - ethnography - Farmer and Gmelch

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Anti - Politics Machine

• Landlocked nation within South Africa
• Lesotho reality versus development picture

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Taking the Politics out of Development

• Development agencies present economy and society
  as within neutral state
• Side effects of failure

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Haiti

• First Black Republic - independent in 1804
• 10,700 sq miles
• Population 8 million plus

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Do Kay

• Remembered valley
• Water refugees
• Urban vs. rural

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Health Haiti

• Rural clinics
• Zanmi Lasante
• Medical pluralism

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Developing Haiti

• The retaking of Kay
• Pig eradication replacement project

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Anti-Politics Machine - Haiti

• Duvailer regime 1957 - 1986
• Tonton Macoutes or death squad
• Receiving the phone call