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- 2.3.0 @1001:2020
- shapes how people use language to communicate * Cultures impose symbolic categories on different ways of s... opics are impolite to discuss with strangers. * Cultures also identify forms of conversation, and these fo... sonal experience One kind of talk found in many cultures takes the form of a narrative, that is, a descrip... gossip. Each culture has its own genres, but many cultures have a genre of narrative in which a person retel
- 13.1 @1002:2018
- fluenced by their culture, but I am not." * "Most cultures of the world have already died out, for better or... distinctive traditions and becomes modern." ## Cultures act on the world When we put people's lives in a... 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
- ethnocentrism_and_cultural_relativism
- were inferior (Levi-Strauss 1952: 11). Like many cultures, Greek culture is highly **ethnocentric**. It con... iders itself to be a standard against which other cultures can be judged. Ethnocentrism is a way of thinking about cultural difference in which different cultures are ranked on a scale according to how closely th... les of Asia (Guldin 1994). In fact, in many other cultures, large and small, the foreigner is conceptualized
- personhood
- y profound way to explore the differences between cultures. It is a very important concept in many anthropol... ositions in a social structure is debatable. Many cultures deem certain kinds of beings as incapable of being social actors. Many other cultures extend this recognition to nonhumans and other be
- 1.3.1 @1001:2020
- l Semple and Ellsworth Huntington argued that all cultures were products of their environmental geography (s... * Culture determines how people adapt * Two cultures adapt to the same environment in different ways ... pua New Guinea * Technology is part of people’s cultures, too * One of the ways in which societies dif... se these kinds of categories to understand actual cultures? ===== Having a name for something is not the sa
- 13.2 @1002:2024
- ===== Cultural continuity as a value today ===== Cultures continue, and they also change. Which fact is mor... themselves. ===== Boas and the concept of plural cultures ===== Franz Boas is responsible for creating a p... ent, they also sought to document Native American cultures they feared would disappear. Their ethnographic ... h culture, but it often led to an assumption that cultures were units to be counted. ===== Are people the b
- 3 @2700:2021
- hropologist.” * Aliens are portrayed as having “cultures” in the sense of having distinct philosophies or ... each planet characters are stereotypes of their “cultures”: * Klingons are a “warrior culture” based on ... lture, then it is because the writers assume that cultures are like worlds, or islands; each planet is a sel... they are taught to value in the context of their cultures, but he seems to assume that people’s wants aren’
- 2020 @1001:2020
- straddles what Snow (2017 [1959]) calls the "two cultures"---science and the humanities---of scholarship. W... s true, then they also affect people in different cultures, each of whom sees the world and other people in ... als:2|Week 2]] ## Reference Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (195
- 3 @2700:2022
- hropologist.” * Aliens are portrayed as having “cultures” in the sense of having distinct philosophies or ... each planet characters are stereotypes of their “cultures”: * Klingons are a “warrior culture” based on ... lture, then it is because the writers assume that cultures are like worlds, or islands; each planet is a sel... they are taught to value in the context of their cultures, but he seems to assume that people’s wants aren’
- translation
- ho strives to be invisible (Venuti 2017). Western cultures teach people to see the work of the translator on... slator reveals a contradiction in the way Western cultures have conceptualize communication. In the “standar... ionality and transparency. More generally, in SAE cultures, translation between two languages is assumed to ... lso examine the ways in which people of different cultures appropriate meaning in foreign texts for their ow
- 1.2.1 @1001:2020
- * The opposition of **primitive and civilized** cultures is another kind of ladder of humanity, even if it... or Tylor, culture is singular. He never speaks of cultures in the plural (Stocking 1982), except in one very late writing (Price 2012, sect. 4.4). ===== Cultures in the plural ===== Franz Boas is responsible fo
- 7 @2700:2025
- t colonized people they governed were **vanishing cultures** or **dying races** * They advocated for polic... were motivated by a belief in vanishing or dying cultures to conduct research “before it is too late” (Grub... the premise that colonized peoples are vanishing cultures. They both pursue projects on that basis in para
- 1.1 @1002:2018
- and empirical evidence for bigger ideas about how cultures work. ## Weekly writing assignments ## On [[h... 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
- 1.2 @1002:2018
- 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... thropology viewed indigenous societies as "dying" cultures. ## Where is the world heading? ## Many peop