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- ology examines this diversity through the lens of culture. To understand many contemporary issues, you need to understand culture and how culture influences how people think and act. ## Thinking about culture ## Culture is a system of ideas and values which
- 1.2
- ntemporary life. * Anthropology's key concept - culture - helps us to understand what happens when differ... al whole which works toward specific goals. * **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
- 1.1
- and empirical evidence for bigger ideas about how cultures work. ## Weekly writing assignments ## On [[... al whole which works toward specific goals. * **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
- 5.1
- ## The two traps ## * The trap of nostalgia: Cultures are dying. * The trap of modernism: Everything i... g ## Positive thinking has deep roots in Western culture, going back to the Enlightenment: * There is a r... e has also been a *critical tradition* in Western culture which has been skeptical of this. ## Voltaire's ... of Colorado. Shehata, Samer S. 2009. Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.
- 8.2
- ~~DECKJS~~ # Western modernity as culture, ii # ## Western modernity as culture, ii ## Ryan Schram Mills 169, A26 ryan (dot) schram (at) sydne... y, but the idea of modernity is powerful. * Many cultures represent their own history as a linear movement. * Western cultures' concept of modernity is the liberation of the
- 13.2
- effects on local environments ## Capitalism is a culture * Capitalism is a culture, not a space of "freedom." * In a capitalist system, people must play the role ... e.g. commodity fetishism. ## The conjuncture of cultures * No society exists in isolation; everyone live... fered in the summer) * Two 2000-level units (e.g. culture and development, medical anthropology, gender, re
- 3.2
- ## The two traps ## * The trap of nostalgia: Cultures are dying. * The trap of modernism: Everything i... g ## Positive thinking has deep roots in Western culture, going back to the Enlightenment: * There is a r... e has also been a *critical tradition* in Western culture which has been skeptical of this. ## Voltaire's
- 7.1
- ed. Everyone lives in some kind of conjuncture of cultures and orders. * Fluid. Societies are produced through their interactions with other cultures, and every society is a product of their history... was ethnocentric in some ways, he did think that culture played a role in the history of society. The val
- 2.2
- derlying many if not all transactions ## Western culture and social reality ## ### Western culture ### * Western culture values individualism. * Children are taught to be individuals. * Society and it
- 5.2
- tice 2015, 95)! Capitalist mass production is a culture. It has its own moral values which contrast with ... 02/ocea.5116. Shehata, Samer S. 2009. Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.
- reading_list
- Kimberly. 2006. “Tracking Properness: Repackaging Culture in a Remote Australian Town.” Cultural Anthropolo... eton University Press. Yan, Yunxiang. 1996. “The Culture of Guanxi in a North China Village.” The China Jo
- welcome_to_anthropology
- s true, then they also affect people in different cultures, who each see the world and other people in dist... nnot understand contemporary trends from a single culture's point of view. The world needs anthropology and
- 8.1
- Western societies tend to be very secular, but as cultures, their members also share a system of values? Wh
- assessments
- er key claim made by many anthropologists: When a culture comes in contact with new ideas, technologies, an
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- the transformations of colonial and post-colonial cultures, the rise of global movements and the correspond