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- City air makes you free @1002:2018
- between rural and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This class is about the conditions of life and society in the contemporary world. The contemporary world is: * Interconnected. Everyone lives in some kind of conjuncture of cultures ... ists argue that you cannot understand life in the contemporary world by a **"from-to" story**, e.g. from traditi
- Modernity
- and_cultural_relativism|ethnocentric]] bias. If a contemporary society is different from the observer's, then th... k to hunter-gatherers and other societies as "our contemporary ancestors" (Chagnon 1983: 214). That is, they are contemporary, but hunter-gatherers and rainforest dwellers are... * Social change is a **both--and story**, e.g. In contemporary societies, we see both gifts and commodities coex
- Religion and Economy
- al individualism—has been effectively rejected by contemporary social scientists. Speaking from the perspective ... t this would be missing a crucial aspect of these contemporary examples and many others like them. People's atte... : Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana.” Development and Change 29 (4): 751–76. do... 1.1.92. Nelson, John. 2008. “Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist‘ Ancestor Worship’ wit
- Weekly plan and assigned readings @2667
- a—and Buddhism’s Uneasy Relation with Lay Power.” Contemporary Buddhism 13 (1): 1–33. doi:10.1080/14639947.2012.... Gendered Anxieties about Faithful Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia.” American Ethnologist 37 (4): 61... . 2004. “Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity.” American Anthropologist 106 (
- Around the world in 13 weeks @1002:2018
- es in an intersection of two or more systems. * Contemporary societies are all different, but we can understan... creativity. ## Snake and mongoose ## That is, contemporary life is defined by its contradictions. There are ... One 3000-level unit, typically either ANTH 3601 (contemporary theories) or ANTH 3602 (reading ethnography) #
- The globalization of capitalism and the contemporary economy
- # The globalization of capitalism and the contemporary economy For almost 30 years, people have talked about the contemporary era as a period of globalization. What they mean ... integrate people into a single social system. The contemporary global economy is a capitalist system, and in fac
- Why is religion interesting and problematic? @2667
- n maintain contact with them. (Rambelli 2010) ## Contemporary altars (gendai butsudan): Why hide? ## * Urban f... imilar look to other furniture. These are called "contemporary altars" (*gendai butsudan*). * Yakigen does not ... elson. Nelson, John. 2008. “Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist ‘Ancestor Worship’ wit
- Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
- ations in which people live. ## Culture and the contemporary world ## Classical anthropology has a bias towa... f anthropology's key ideas in order to understand contemporary societies. ## A guide to the unit ## {{page>1
- Remittance networks and stratified reproduction @1002:2018
- le in your family because you love them. But in contemporary societies--like Kabre, Maimafu, Mount Hagen, Trin... pective, remittances are also a major part of the contemporary global economy, especially from the perspective o
- Cultural determinism and utilitarianism @1001:2020
- ilding-stone-age-bushcraft.html. For the record, contemporary hunter-gatherer societies are not living cavemen,... te about life ==== * Hunter-gatherers are “our contemporary ancestors” (Some anthropologists say this about e
- Starting points for your research @2667
- 2000. Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Ort... : The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity. Topics in Contemporary Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory and anthropology @3601:2020
- ====== ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory and anthropology ====== ^ **Coordinator:** | Ryan Schram |\\ ^ **Email:**... y, and what it means to be human. In //ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory in anthropology//, we will discuss the rec
- Can you buy salvation? @2667
- Gendered Anxieties about Faithful Consumption in Contemporary Urban Indonesia.” American Ethnologist 37 (4): 61... : Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana.” Development and Change 29 (4): 751–76. do
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- ieties do not follow the same path of change, and contemporary tribal societies, though different, are not living fossils or contemporary ancestors; these societies continue to change ove
- Can you learn to hear God? @2667
- . 2004. “Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity.” American Anthropologist 106 (... to get down the main idea here in your own, more contemporary language. ## The three types of questions ## A
