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- Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
- information they want if they don't know people's cultural norms for communication. * If an interview remi... bserver and observed live in completely different cultural worlds, and both come to realize that they see th... are not static. Every society changes, and every cultural system is a product of historical change. * The... their own communities, and may straddle multiple cultural worlds much like the fieldworker does. * Muchon
- Putting it all together @1002:2018
- 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
- Franz Boas and the culture concept @1001:2020
- Franz Boas is responsible for creating a properly cultural anthropology in which difference can be explained... ding why people are different. What is it? "Each cultural group has its own unique history" (Boas [1920] 20... at you share with others in your community. ## Cultural relativism is a methodological principle People’... share. There are other kinds of relativism, and cultural relativism needs to be distinguished from them
- Mind
- as, cultures are plural, and this is because each cultural group creates its own worldview which is internal... y complete and makes sense on its own terms. Each cultural group has its own subjectivity, much like each in... each person who is socialized in that culture. So cultural relativism as a principle is based on anthropolog... acquire through learning and socialization. Hence cultural differences are mainly seen in the differences in
- The universal and the particular @1001:2020
- aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology// (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 1–11.... aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology// (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 12–31... and are particular to their environment. They are cultural, not natural. Examples: * //Liget// (anger) a... aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology//, 12–31. London: Pluto Press. ———
- Learning from Lisa @the_quest
- s that these stories are instances of an American cultural myth, and as such, they not only represent Washin... state as a parent. Thus the stories reinforce the cultural representation of the state by presenting it not ... main interest is the mythic character of American cultural representations of its government, which this epi... myth of Jebediah Springfield has value too" as a cultural symbol. I accept this more than "The system works
- Translation
- ife. It reflects a particular bias in the Western cultural understanding of how communication works. The Wes... achine. Yet as much as this is central to the SAE cultural construction of language, Quine’s skepticism is e... en we are faced with a classic kind of problem in cultural anthropology. Since no one type of translation is... Subaltern subjects not only see themselves in the cultural assumptions embedded in dominant codes, but in be
- Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
- # Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism # In Ancient Greece, non-Greek speaking peoples were called barbar... judged. Ethnocentrism is a way of thinking about cultural difference in which different cultures are ranked... ethnocentric roots and develop a new approach to cultural differences based on a holistic study of culture ... orary anthropology are based on **the doctrine of cultural relativism**. This simply means that to understan
- Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
- 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
- Melford E. Spiro and the strange and the familiar in ethnography
- ethod. In the first place, because it makes cross-cultural comparison and classification possible, that dual... first step in the attempt to discover social and cultural generalizations... (Spiro 1990, 49) To produce t... is is both objective yet retains the principle of cultural relativism. He says, > The operation of making ... s been employed as a method of not only for cross-cultural generalizations, but also for single-culture expl
- Summary of topics and readings @3601:2020
- . 1990. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” //Theory, Culture & Society// 7 (2-3): ... Bashkow, Ira. 2004. “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries.” //American Anthropologist// 106 (3):... Andes: Conceptual Reflections beyond ‘Politics.’” Cultural Anthropology 25 (2): 334–70. https://doi.org/10.1... ace, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.” //Cultural Anthropology// 7 (1): 6–23. doi:[[https://doi.org
- Welcome to anthropology @1001:2020
- aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology// (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 1–11.... aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology// (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 12–31... Welcome! ===== This class is an introduction to cultural anthropology, a field which aims to understand pe... uman? ===== What do anthropologists, especially “cultural anthropologists,” study? * Where did anthropol
- Do the dead have rights? @1002
- In Week 11, I discussed wailing as an example of cultural differences in the meaning of death in difference... ple are acultural and live in a world without any cultural programming (see Gershon 2012, 5). ## Kwaio... ed** states are experiences for which there is no cultural script (per Long 2004), or no clear, shared socia... s. Gershon, Ilana. 2012. No Family Is an Island: Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora. Ithaca, N.Y.
- Emic and etic descriptions @1001:2020
- aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology// (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 32–51... hy ===== Ethnography is a a form of writing that cultural anthropologists use to help people understand a way of life as a cultural system. An ethnography is (usually) a book writt... is "strange familiar" by moving from a particular cultural worldview to a "third set of concepts --- that, a
- Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” @1001:2020
- aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology// (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 32–51... hy ===== Ethnography is a a form of writing that cultural anthropologists use to help people understand a way of life as a cultural system. An ethnography is (usually) a book writt... aces, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology//, 32–51. London: Pluto Press. Gom
- “God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
- Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 2) @1001:2020
- Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 1) @1001:2020
