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Franz Boas and the culture concept @1001:2020
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~~DECKJS~~ ====== Franz Boas and the culture concept ====== ===== Franz Boas and the culture concept ===== Ryan Schram ANTH 1001: Introduction to an... thropologies. He gives us a contemporary sense of culture as acquired. But he never talks about plural culture-s. 🤔 Rather, each society occupied a different stage
Putting it all together @1002:2018
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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
Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
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du/article/708087. ## Learning how to ask * A culture shapes how people use language to communicate *... s experiences with interviews comes through their culture's emic category of //job interview//, then they w... subject will think they have to play the role of "culture expert." You should play the role that you normal... ktale, history, autobiography, joke, gossip. Each culture has its own genres, but many cultures have a genr
The origins of cultural anthropology @1001:2020
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logical faculties. * Any person can acquire any culture ## Edward Burnett Tylor: Culture is acquired > Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which ... human beings? ===== The evolutionary approach to culture challenged one kind of racism, but not completely
Translation
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translation and to an extent generally in Western culture, however, translation is often conceived as a spe... ip as accurate and legitimate. Not only does each culture create its own translation practices, but each culture also determines where and what kind of linguistic o... he subordinate code (Urciuoli 1996). The dominant culture regards them as possessing an incomplete mixture
The charisma of the coronavirus
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It is, by definition, not part of my or anyone’s culture. ===== The relevance of anthropology: Covid-19 i... community based on a shared system of thought, a culture. Indeed, to date, there have only been 5 million... social role, and an expression of this society’s culture. The coronavirus dies in hostile social environments, and this too is an expression of a culture. Service work is intrinsically more risky, and ye
The universal and the particular @1001:2020
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o see what you all think. ===== The key word is “culture” ===== Many, many things people do are acquired ... Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea ===== Taking back the culture concept ===== Culture is often an overused word. For anthropologists who are interested in the acquired a... ed word. This class is about taking back the word culture. * Culture is not just people’s identity * C
Anthropology, race and culture @talks
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~~DECKJS~~ # Anthropology, race and culture # ## Anthropology, race and culture ## Ryan Schram Social Justice Panel Discussion Wingara Mura Bunga ... ce racism (McGranahan 2014)? ## The concept of culture ## People are not more cultured or more cultivat... person's behavior is always **relative** to their culture. That means that when a person learns a particula
Qualitative analysis of a birth interview @1002:2020
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report of your birth as qualitative data on your culture’s practice of pregnancy and birth. What does this aspect of your culture tell you about the culture as a whole and its values and assumptions about people? Third, write an essay ... makes an argument for your conclusion about your culture based on the qualitative information in your inte
Do religions mix? @2667
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ligions mix? # ## "Syncretic" religion, "creole" culture and the politics of authenticity ## Ryan Schram ... types apply to Horizon and Vodou? ## Theories of culture and culture contact ## * Diffusionism and historical particularism * Diffusionism: Cultural traits or patterns are invented and established in one culture, and then spread to other cultures, leading the r
“God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
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of Christianity ===== * Christianity is both a culture and a “part-culture” (Coleman 2006, 3). * When people seek to instantiate Christianity as a social ident... for the Christian’s relationship to the dominant culture. * Comaroff and Comaroff (1991) argue that miss... They thus cannot ever completely reify indigenous culture as tradition. It must be allowed to exercise some
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
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(nation), but that they lacked things which Greek culture possessed, and hence they were inferior (Levi-Strauss 1952: 11). Like many cultures, Greek culture is highly **ethnocentric**. It considers itself t... ale according to how closely they approximate the culture of the observer (Eriksen 2001: 6). For generation... cultural differences based on a holistic study of culture on its own terms and in its own context. Most exp
ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world @1002:2020
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e]]. </WRAP> ## Class description As humans, culture completes us, but we also create culture through our words and deeds. Social and cultural anthropologists ... will learn how anthropological understandings of culture and society help us to rethink the way we live an... igh) ==== === Week 4 (Sep. 14): Human nature and culture === Required readings: Eriksen (2015c) === Week
Mind
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ce of people's minds is in the Boasian concept of culture itself. Everyone has a uniquely first-person pers... of the same basic intellectual abilities. This is culture in the singular. Everyone has the same view of th... dual person has its own I-centered perspective. A culture itself are is like a mind that lives in the subje... ive mind of each person who is socialized in that culture. So cultural relativism as a principle is based o
Environmental determinism and cultural determinism @1001:2020
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ltural determinism and the environment ===== * Culture determines how people adapt * Two cultures adap... ===== People need natural resources to live, but culture determines what parts of nature they need ===== ... nology, but the position it occupies in the whole culture. * Consider the adoption of the technology of t... //, December 1969. Lowie, Robert Harry. 1917. //Culture and Ethnology//. New York: D. C. McMurtrie. http:
Critique of your own cultural assumptions @1002:2020
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Personhood
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Summary of topics and readings @3601:2020
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Tylor's definition of culture @1001:2020:tutorials
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Weekly plan and assigned readings @2667
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The social world is a stage, and our actions are symbols @1001:2020
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Welcome back to 1002! @1002:2018
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PlayGround @playground
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Symbol
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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Welcome to anthropology @1001:2020
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Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
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ANTH 6916: Culture and Development--Key Concepts @6916:2018
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Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
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Do the dead have rights? @1002:2019
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Symbolizing kinship @2654
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Around the world in 13 weeks @1002:2018
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Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” @1001:2020
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Marcel Mauss and the gift @1002:2018
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What we will do in this class @1001:2020
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The obligations of the gift @1002:2019
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ANTH 6916: Culture and development—Key concepts @6916:2020
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ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology @1001:2020
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The practice of social theory @6916:2020
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Key informants
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About this seminar @6916:2020
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Summary of topics and readings @6916:2020
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Develop-man @1002:2018
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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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Is Christianity singular or plural? @2667
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Melford E. Spiro and the strange and the familiar in ethnography
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Starting points for your research @2667
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Week 2: Symbolic anthropology @3601:2020
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Cultural contextualization of an observation about childhood @1002:2020
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The Twelve Tribes: A Messianic Community
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Week 8: Rules as resources @6916:2020
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First Year Forum: Doing Field Work in Papua New Guinea @talks
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The charisma of the coronavirus @1001:2020
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Do liberal societies need beliefs? @2667
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W. H. R. Rivers
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"Sanguma em i stap": Ethnographic citizenship and epistemic exclusion in Tok Pisin sorcery stories since 1945 @talks:sanguma
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Welcome to ANTH 1002: Anthropology and the Global, 2018 @1002:2018
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Lewis Henry Morgan
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Tell me a story...: An analysis of qualitative data @1001:2020
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Eric Silverman's report from Wewak and Tambunum, 2014
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Learning from Lisa @the_quest
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What does death end? @1002:2019
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Marriage
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Surrogate motherhood
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6916guide @6916:2020
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Welcome to anthropology @1002:2018
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1001guide @1001:2020
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Modernity
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What we do in class @1002:2018
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Megadeath @1002:2019
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Quick links
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Semantics and pragmatics
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Why would someone join a religious commune? @2667
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Why is religion interesting and problematic? @2667
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Community
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Difference
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Essay @6916:2020
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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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Other mothers @2654
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Assessments @1002:2018
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Ancestry @2654
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Week 13: Culture and the changing conditions of subjectivity @3601:2020
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Religion and Economy
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Welcome to 6916 @6916:2018
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Week 8: Can anthropology see over the horizon of “the field”? @3601:2020
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Metaphors of kinship and performativity of symbols @2654
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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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Some history @2654
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City air makes you free @1002:2018
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