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| - | # [TOPIC/ | + | # Can you buy salvation? |
| - | ## [Topic/ | + | ## Can you buy salvation? |
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| ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
| - | [Date], 2015 | + | 4 May 2016 |
| + | Available at http:// | ||
| ### Readings ### | ### Readings ### | ||
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| + | Jones, Carla. 2010. “Materializing Piety: Gendered Anxieties about Faithful Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia.” American Ethnologist 37 (4): 617–37. doi: | ||
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| + | Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American Ethnologist 23 (4): 673–97. doi: | ||
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| + | Meyer, Birgit. 1998. “Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana.” Development and Change 29 (4): 751–76. doi: | ||
| ### Other media ### | ### Other media ### | ||
| + | “Kosher Dining.” 2016. Cornell Center for Jewish Living, Cornell University. Accessed May 3. http:// | ||
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| + | Medina, Jennifer. 2016. “A Few Miles From San Bernardino, a Muslim Prom Queen Reigns.” The New York Times, April 29. http:// | ||
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| + | ## What is (in) fashion? ## | ||
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| + | * How would you describe fashion among students at this university? | ||
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| + | * What do these trends or styles tell you about the people who wear them? | ||
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| + | ## Are your friends fashion followers? ## | ||
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| + | * How many of you think that your friends follow what is in fashion? | ||
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| + | * How many of you think that your friends do not follow what is in fashion? | ||
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| + | ## Dress as communication and dress as consumption ## | ||
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| + | A theory of clothing: | ||
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| + | * Let's assume that everyone has a choice of what to wear. | ||
| + | * Let's also assume that people make judgements about what other people wear. | ||
| + | * Dress is a social action - it sends a message, even if that message is not intended. | ||
| + | * The message of dress is also implicitly a message about the person. | ||
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| + | ## Weber and hipsters ## | ||
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| + | * Weber' | ||
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| + | * There are many levels of meaning in any one action: emotional (affective), | ||
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| + | * There is also another level of meaning, in which the action expresses a value. | ||
| - | ## Key ideas for this week ## | + | ## Remember ANTH 1002 ## |
| + | * Think back to Terry Woronov' | ||
| + | ## Social identity and mass consumption ## | ||
| + | A simplified theory of identity in mass societies: | ||
| + | * Communication involves using codes. We express ourselves by encoding our thoughts in terms of symbols. | ||
| + | * Living in a mass society means being a consumer of codes. | ||
| + | * The choices presented by the mass market are linked to discrete, bounded categories of identity. | ||
| + | ## Religious identity in a mass society ## | ||
| + | * If religion is a kind of social action, how does one practice one's religion in a mass society? | ||
| + | * How does one express a religious identity as one's social identity in a mass society? | ||
| + | ## Religion and economy ## | ||
| + | * Religious prohibitions on consumption | ||
| + | * Religious critiques of wealth | ||
| + | * Blessing of commodity consumption | ||
| + | * Aimee Semple Macpherson and televangelism | ||
| + | * Fundraising in Auhelawa churches | ||
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