Sunday, March 18, 2012

Ken v. Napoleon

I think both Ken's and Napoleon's actions were very wrong. Iwould say Napoleon's were a little worse because he used the Yanamamo as subjects in his experiment and not a group of people. He gave them weapons that made them dependent on western products fro survival instead of their own. Napoleon tried to change the Yanamamo's ways and enforce a western influence upon them instead of doing what an anthropologist should do and just study their culture. Although what Ken did was disgusting and wrong, he did not try to force any changes upon all the Yanamamo people.

1 comment:

Kara Kirchner said...

I agree. Napoleon did change the Yanomami culture and influenced them to use weapons and violence in order to experiment. An anthropologist isn't supposed to change a culture.