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APY3705 Assignment 4 (Portfolio) Semester 1 Memo | Due 15 May 2025. All questions fully answered. Part 1
1. Briefly discuss some of the features of globalisation.
2. Define ethnocentrism and contrast it with cultural relativism. How do these concepts play out
in post-earthquake Haiti according to David Brookes and Jennie Smith-Pariola?
3. Using your own words, show how the cases of Dolly, the cloned sheep and assisted
reproductive technologies discussed by Franklin transcend the “nature” and “culture”
dichotomy.
Part 2
1. Imagine that you are an anthropologist who has been commissioned to advise Negroponte on
the best way to introduce the One Laptop Per Child initiative in your community. Consider the
following questions:
What kinds of anthropological questions do Nicholas Negroponte’s comments raise?
What are the key features of this programme that you would design your study around?
What general concerns would you as an anthropologist have?
How might cultural perceptions about children and their relationship with others in their
society impact on the success or not of the OLPC in different contexts?
What specific recommendations would you make about the best way to introduce the $100.00
laptop into your own community? What are the things that you would caution against?
Part 3
1. Jacka (2001) contends that the developers and the Ipili people of Papua New Guinea held
different views about land. Critically discuss the points of contention on land held by these
different role players. How do these contending viewpoints on land interface with Johannes
Morrow’s (2009: 37) assertion that “[t]raditional ecological knowledge is the communal and
intimate knowledge of indigenous peoples about their territories which promotes environmental
sustainability and biological diversity” and that because nature “has agency”, the distinction
made between Nature and Culture is not universal and natural?
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