Anthropology report

Progress “undermines African culture” PART1 I read an article on how tourist and Christians are changing the African culture. According to Mr Opondo, tourism is effecting huge changes in the lives of people in the Kigezi highlands. He said, "The tourists who come to enjoy the mountains trigger change among the inhabitants, leading to assimilation of cultures and the diffusion of new lifestyles. The prevailing attitude of using Western culture as the mirror of what …

…process that Africa is going through because of the westerners. The article also states how polygamy is common tradition as it is also explained in chapter 9 “marriage” cultural anthropology book. This article is also correlated to many videos that I have saw in my Anthropology class because it relates to how the anthropologists try not to disrupt the African culture, by not exposing them to new technologies or anything else that might disrupt their culture.