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Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
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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
ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world @1002:2020
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e culture through our words and deeds. Social and cultural anthropologists are engaged in both cultural description and cultural criticism: their work contributes to understanding the world and changing it. Anth... u will be introduced to the unique perspective of cultural anthropology on human experience through a study
Putting it all together @1002:2018
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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
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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
Cultural contextualization of an observation about childhood @1002:2020
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====== Cultural contextualization of an observation about childhood ====== Designed by Holly High and Ryan ... ence with children and childrearing. Identify the cultural values that are expressed by what you experienced... of what this practice tells you about the larger cultural context in which it sits. This essay is an exerci... stance on your own lived experiences and your own cultural environment. ===== Instructions ===== **Step 1:
Critique of your own cultural assumptions @1002:2020
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====== Critique of your own cultural assumptions ====== Designed by Ryan Schram and Holly High **Due**: No... just way? Hence, anthropology can contribute to **cultural critique**, or critical thinking about one’s own ... report of a commonplace event is saturated with a cultural worldview. A news article is an example of a poss... e primary source that documents the presence of a cultural ideology. Consider all of the topics we have dis
The universal and the particular @1001:2020
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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. ———
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
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# 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
Translation
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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
Learning from Lisa @the_quest
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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
Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
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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
Mind
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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
Melford E. Spiro and the strange and the familiar in ethnography
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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
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. 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
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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
Emic and etic descriptions @1001:2020
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Do the dead have rights? @1002:2019
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Starting points for your research @2667
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1002guide @1002:2020
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Welcome back to 1002! @1002:2018
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Environmental determinism and cultural determinism @1001:2020
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Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” @1001:2020
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Tell me a story...: An analysis of qualitative data @1001:2020
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Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 2) @1001:2020
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Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 1) @1001:2020
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“God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
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Qualitative analysis of a birth interview @1002:2020
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Symbol
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Do religions mix? @2667
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About this seminar @3601:2020
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Key informants
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In search of prosperity @1002:2018
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Around the world in 13 weeks @1002:2018
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Welcome back to ANTH 1002 @1002:2019
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The origins of cultural anthropology @1001:2020
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Writing an effective email @1002:2020
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Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
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What we will do in class @1002:2020
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Week 8: Can anthropology see over the horizon of “the field”? @3601:2020
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Summary of topics and readings @6916:2020
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Religion and Economy
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Marriage
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The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols @1001:2020
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Moral economies @1002:2019
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PlayGround @playground
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Cultural determinism and utilitarianism @1001:2020
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Lewis Henry Morgan
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Modernity
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City air makes you free @1002:2018
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What we do in class @1002:2018
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Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
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"No man dies without a reason" @1002:2019
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Anthropology, race and culture @talks
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Readings, other class requirements, and online resources @1001:2020
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Can religion change the world? @2667
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Ethnographic report on observations of public behavior @1001:2020
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Staying on top of your study @2667
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About this seminar @6916:2020
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Semantics and pragmatics
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Do liberal societies need beliefs? @2667
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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Welcome to ANTH 1002: Anthropology and the Global, 2018 @1002:2018
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David Harvey
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ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology @1001:2020
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Megadeath @1002:2019
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What is anthropology, and why should we care? @1002:2020
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Welcome to anthropology @1002:2018
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Why is religion interesting and problematic? @2667
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Community
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Do all societies become secular? @2667
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Some history @2654
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Week 11: Cosmopolitics and ethnopolitics @3601:2020
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The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea @talks
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Week 9: Conjunctures revisited @3601:2020
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Week 8: Rules as resources @6916:2020
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Week 7: Globalization as turning point @3601:2020
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The goal of this class @1001:2020
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Week 9: Social remittances @6916:2020
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Alliance and descent
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Ancestry @2654
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Week 12: Liberalism and its others @3601:2020
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Other mothers @2654
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Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
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Can you learn to hear God? @2667
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What we will do in this class @1001:2020
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The charisma of the coronavirus
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The charisma of the coronavirus @1001:2020
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Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base @3601:2020
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Assessing Mauss’s influence: An exercise in research skill @1002:2020
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