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- Assessing Mauss’s influence: An exercise in research skill @1002:2020
- to develop your own understanding of a topic. The ideas in scholarly publications are not mere opinions. ... olarly publications are not textbooks either. The ideas that scholars write are not settled knowledge, th... which have responded to Bohannan or built on his ideas about Tiv spheres of exchange. (For those interes... nd engages in disciplined thought to discover new ideas. Yet, one always has to think about what one find
- Religion and Economy
- the sacred self ## The interaction of religious ideas and economic practices raise critical questions f... the collective. Actions thus expressed religious ideas, affirmed the rules of kinship, and structured su... economic system, others began borrowing religious ideas as new sources of motivation for their own econom... omething wholly new, modernity. One of the signal ideas of Western social theory, then starts from the pr
- About this seminar @6916:2020
- represent the work of one important scholar whose ideas have influenced the way people in many social sci... is to find out all the different ways that these ideas can be interpreted and applied. This means we all... they were writing, these authors were arguing for ideas which many people found hard to understand and ha... was new. This means that they often present their ideas in dense prose. Some of them write very detailed,
- What we do in class @1002:2018
- . In lectures and readings, we present a bunch of ideas and arguments. We don't simply want you to accept... as gospel. We want you to learn how to use these ideas to ask questions, challenge common sense, and fig... to write an essay, and to synthesize all the big ideas and theories of anthropology for the final essay ... the end, you should be able to explain these big ideas to someone else, in your own words, with your own
- Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
- torial today. Maybe some of you already have some ideas... Walk around and introduce yourself to people. ... h, *[[:the_quest:start|The Quest: Discovering new ideas through research]]*. Check it out. This week are ... ion and society, and the role played by religious ideas, practices and institutions in societies. * The ... ientific study of society. ## Durkheim's key ideas ## * Society is a whole which is greater than th
- Proposal for a Grade 12 lesson on kinship @1001:2020
- - You can cite our class readings as sources for ideas that you want to discuss and apply to your argume... assignment is to describe how you would make the ideas from anthropology you think are important accessi... udents who have never studied anthropology. Your ideas about how to teach kinship in high school should ... our argument about the importance of kinship. The ideas for teaching that you create are your examples th
- Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
- oday?** Take note of what people say. Write some ideas down. ## The mechanics of the class ## This cl... llustrations of and empirical evidence for bigger ideas about how cultures work. ## Weekly writing assi... y about these questions and come up with your own ideas about them. You write this and submit it online... ehensive final assignment. It will cover the main ideas from the whole class. You will be given a set of
- Assessments @1002:2018
- logists: When a culture comes in contact with new ideas, technologies, and commodities, it finds ways to ... ask you to demonstrate your understanding of key ideas from the class, and others which ask you to synthesize the different ideas and arguments we have read in terms of unifying t... are opportunities for you to reflect on your own ideas and get ready to talk about your own ideas in tut
- Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base @6916:2020
- tem of total prestations. When you offer your own ideas and respond to what other people think, you are g... class a gift of helping them to develop their own ideas. You receive the same kind of gift when people talk about their ideas and ask you questions about your thinking. This i... ion every week to a shared stock of knowledge and ideas in the form of a wiki on the class Canvas site. I
- Critique of your own cultural assumptions @1002:2020
- ===== In this assignment, we want you to put the ideas from this class together and use them as a critic... ue the culture in which you live. One of the key ideas in this class is **ideology**. The word //ideolog... ill be evaluated on how well you explain your own ideas, and how well you support your ideas with concrete information from a primary source. You are not requi
- Brainstorming @the_quest
- al change. As firms needed increasingly to create ideas as part of the creation of products, people could... new things. We notice new things, and we have new ideas. Doesn’t that sound like something you want to le... next move in the conversation. So if you need new ideas, just start talking. Naturally, this talking is... king engages the brain and helps you discover the ideas you have. Brainstorming is based on this. Could t
- Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base @3601:2020
- tem of total prestations. When you offer your own ideas and respond to what other people think, you are g... class a gift of helping them to develop their own ideas. You receive the same kind of gift when people talk about their ideas and ask you questions about your thinking. This i... ion every week to a shared stock of knowledge and ideas in the form of a wiki on the class Canvas site. I
- How do anthropologists think? @1001:2020
- to show us that you not only understand the main ideas from each topic we have covered, but that you can... Thinking back on the class, I can see three main ideas that have emerged as we investigated different to... topics from class speaks to one or more of these ideas, and you can see connections across the topics in... arguments from each week into each of these three ideas (and some topics would belong in more than one).
- Attendance, timetables, lectures, tutorials, and the hybrid format of this class @1002:2020
- ists on Canvas to help you think about the week’s ideas on your own. * Weekly quiz questions that help ... ou consolidate your knowledge about the important ideas in the week’s readings and the lecture videos and... regularly throughout the semester to discuss the ideas from class with your colleagues and your tutor. T... There are a lot of provocative and controversial ideas in this class, and we hope you enjoy talking thro
- What we will do in class @1002:2020
- is //how to learn// and how to discover your own ideas. Also, in the pandemic year of 2020, we have all ... In the first week of each module, we cover basic ideas anthropologists have developed to understand the ... his class. * In the second week we discuss these ideas in the context of a single ethnographic case stud... e an argument for your own point of view on these ideas. Most of these ask you to reflect critically on y
