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+ | ~~DECKJS~~ | ||
+ | # Welcome back to 1002! # | ||
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+ | ## Anthropology in the world ## | ||
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+ | Ryan Schram | ||
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+ | Mills 169 (A26) | ||
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+ | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
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+ | August 1, 2018 | ||
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+ | Available at http:// | ||
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+ | ## Welcome back to anthropology! ## | ||
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+ | * This class introduces you to anthropology, | ||
+ | * We, the teachers and tutors, are also making an argument | ||
+ | * Anthropology is relevant to understanding contemporary life. | ||
+ | * Anthropology' | ||
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+ | ## Putting people' | ||
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+ | Anthropology is a distinct way of understanding human behavior and community. Anthropology looks at the world through a specific set of lenses. | ||
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+ | Some key elements of the anthropological perspective are: | ||
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+ | * **[[: | ||
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+ | * **Societies are not fixed or inflexible.** Social rules are not simply constraints on individual choices. | ||
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+ | * **Cultural differences are not accidents**; | ||
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+ | * **Cultures don't die.** All cultures change, but changes in a culture do not mean that the culture is being lost. Many kinds of change help a culture to adapt to new kinds of situations, and find new ways to reproduce itself and continue to pursue its goals. | ||
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+ | * **Dichotomous categories often mislead us.** Real situations cannot be understood in either-or terms. [[: | ||
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+ | ## Claude Levi-Strauss, | ||
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+ | From his memoir *Tristes Tropiques* (1973 [1951]): | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | ## Examples of monoculture ## | ||
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+ | From *Tristes Tropiques*: | ||
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+ | * "The Polynesian islands have been smothered in concrete and turned into aircraft carriers." | ||
+ | * "The whole of Asia is starting to look like a dingy suburb." | ||
+ | * "The first thing we see as we travel round the world is [the West' | ||
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+ | ## Classical anthropology ## | ||
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+ | Some of the key elements of classical anthropology are: | ||
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+ | * Society is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. | ||
+ | * The parts of a social system fit together in functional ways. | ||
+ | * Societies have boundaries and order. | ||
+ | * The purpose of anthropology is to explain why a social system stays the same and remains intact. | ||
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+ | ## Play Misty for me ## | ||
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+ | Classical anthropology has always been haunted by melancholy. The anthropologist was one who observed "a world on the wane." | ||
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+ | * North American anthropology began as " | ||
+ | * British social anthropology was used by colonial administrations to govern native societies. | ||
+ | * Australian anthropology viewed indigenous societies as " | ||
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+ | ## Where is the world heading? ## | ||
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+ | Many people believe that history has a direction, and that all societies eventually progress toward a goal. | ||
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+ | They don't see this as a tragic loss, like Levi-Strauss does, but a hopeful future. | ||
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+ | For instance, Steven Pinker, has said the following about cultural differences: | ||
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+ | > [I]n fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' | ||
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+ | Why? He offers many possibilities, | ||
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+ | Steven Pinker is the new Doctor [[: | ||
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+ | ## But... ## | ||
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+ | Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, | ||
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+ | ## Global monoculture? | ||
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+ | {{:: | ||
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+ | Image 1: Solange Knowles and Les Sapeurs of Brazzaville on the set of her 2012 music video, " | ||
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+ | ## O RLY? ## | ||
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+ | {{: | ||
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+ | Image 2: Sámediggi, the seat of the Norwegian Samí parliament, in Karasjok, Norway (Mayer, 2014). | ||
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+ | ## Talk pigeon? ## | ||
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+ | Papua New Guinea Pidgin (*Tok Pisin*) is sometimes called Neo-Melanesian English. | ||
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+ | **//pait// (v.): fight, strum.** | ||
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+ | **Man i paitim gita.** //The man strums the guitar.// | ||
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+ | **//stap// (v.): stop, be.** | ||
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+ | **Ol i stap long Mosbi.** //They are in Port Moresby.// | ||
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+ | **//rot// (n.): road, road, way, method, plan, strategy.** | ||
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+ | **Husat save rot?** //Who knows the way?// | ||
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+ | ## Develop-man ## | ||
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+ | "The first commercial impulse of the local people is not to become just like [the West], but more like themselves" | ||
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+ | As a Kewa leader once told an anthropologist (paraphrase): | ||
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+ | "// | ||
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+ | ## References ## | ||
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+ | Mayer, Thomas. 2014. "Sami Parliament Karasjok." | ||
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+ | Levi-Strauss, | ||
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+ | Sahlins, Marshall. 1992. “The Economics of Develop-Man in the Pacific.” Res 21: 13–25. | ||
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+ | Morrissey, Tracie Egan. 2012. “Solange’s ‘Losing You’ Video Solidifies Her Spot as Coolest Girl in the World.” Jezebel, October 2. Accessed July 28, 2018. https:// | ||
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+ | Voltaire. 2006 [1759]. Candide, or Optimism. Project Gutenberg. http:// | ||
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+ | ## A guide to the unit ## | ||
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+ | {{page> |
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