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- 13.1
- introduction ## This class is an introduction to cultural anthropology. Anthropology is a study of humanity in all of its diversity. Cultural anthropology examines this diversity through the ... e from another culture. * To understand someone's cultural system, we have to see it from their viewpoint,... act on the world When we put people's lives in a cultural context, we also recognize that social rules, soc
- 1.1
- and so it has had to be very diverse. Social and cultural anthropology is one branch of anthropology. It se... oking at it in context, especially the social and cultural forces which affect how people think and act, and... anthropology looks at what people do in a larger cultural context, anthropology is relevant to understandin... lar place, community, or situation to capture the cultural worldview, values, and patterns of people. * We
- reading_list
- Repackaging Culture in a Remote Australian Town.” Cultural Anthropology 21 (3): 416–46. doi:10.1525/can.2006... Blackwell Publishers. Kopytoff, Igor. 1986. “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process.” In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, edited by Arjun Appadurai, 64–91. Ca... d Capital Circuits.” In Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, 110–36. Durham, N.C.:
- 1.2
- te to each other. ## Putting people's lives in a cultural context Anthropology is a distinct way of unders... t simply constraints on individual choices. * **Cultural differences are not accidents**; they are part of a system. When people acquire cultural patterns of thought and behavior, they are also b... ance, Steven Pinker, has said the following about cultural differences: > [I]n fact, our ancestors were
- 8.1
- eties have a 'sacred'? What are the distinctive cultural values of Western modernity not shared, for insta... that is, "sacred" value? ## The individual as a cultural construct Western societies tend to teach member... ld When we think of the globalization of Western cultural forms, most people think of commodities and mass
- 13.2
- thro.rschram.org/1002/13.2 ## Global forces and cultural differences * Capitalism * Colonialism * Global ... nsformation * Global forces are context for local cultural systems, and vice versa. * This is not just tru... lobalization allows people to recreate a coherent cultural order with new materials. ## Everything is mix
- 7.1
- sound like anthropology ## Weber did not look at cultural differences the way that anthropologists do. His ... history of society. The values people learn from cultural institutions, especially religion, cause a societ
- further_information_about_this_unit
- long-term ethnographic method, within a specific cultural setting, allows for a particularly intimate under... y of thinking about societies, social change, and cultural differences. We examine several different kinds o
- what_we_do_in_class
- is no such thing as modernity or progress at all. Cultural differences are enabled and sustained by global i... orms of capitalism actually depend on maintaining cultural, social and political boundaries for some, while
- 4.0
- of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. ## A Word f
- 5.1
- SUNY Press. Shipton, Parker. 1989. Bitter Money: Cultural Economy and Some African Meanings of Forbidden Co
- 5.2
- SUNY Press. Shipton, Parker. 1989. Bitter Money: Cultural Economy and Some African Meanings of Forbidden Co
- 8.2
- 5/nr.2015.19.1.5. ## The idea of "modernity" is cultural * There is no such thing as modernity, but the i
- 2018
- nderstood more clearly by looking up close at the cultural context. In other words, we will be applying some
- staying_on_top_of_your_studies
- assist with tutorial support, mentoring support, cultural and pastoral care along with a range of other ser