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- Anthropologists are people studying people @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
- Putting it all together @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
- Environmental determinism and cultural determinism @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
- 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
- Draft @playground
- l Semple and Ellsworth Huntington argued that all cultures were products of their environmental geography [s... nt * Culture determines how people adapt * Two cultures adapt to the same environment in different ways ... apua 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 same as
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- ~~DECKJS~~ # Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? # ## Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? ## Ryan Schram ryan.schram@syd... n As a Cultural System." In The Interpretation of Cultures, pp. 87-125. New York: Basic Books. ## A guide t
- ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology @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
- Welcome back to 1002! @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
- The origins of cultural anthropology @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
- 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
- Welcome to ANTH 1002 @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
- What does death end? @1002
- is end of an individual biological organism. ## Cultures contain contradictions Cultures are not dogmas; they are not uniform or unequivocal or absolute. Cultures contain [[:identity_and_contradiction|contradicti
- “God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
- d indigenous societies of New Guinea as primitive cultures, missionary authors inevitably invest in these vo... * Because indigenous societies possess “primitive cultures” the missionary must be both a scientific observe
- Can religion change the world? @2667
- mmunicator--Message**]...Code...World Many other cultures conceptualize communication in terms of its effec... ense of Us/Them or East/West. To some extent, all cultures have to recognize that communication really happe
- "Sanguma em i stap (Sanguma is real)": Ethnographic citizenship and epistemic exclusion in Tok Pisin sorcery stories since 1945 @talks:sanguma
