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- Religion and Economy
- system, a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. Religion in its most elementary sense, practices which are oriented to the sacred, is central t... t of society's collective consciousness which all its members treat as objective reality. In that sense... oup, the spirit of the deceased which hovers over its own funeral to ensure that its kin properly mourn
- The charisma of the coronavirus
- g is in how you have come to see anthropology and its core ideas. I still think this is something you ... at maybe the big questions of human existence and its diverse expressions aren’t all as complicated as ... ly and deliberately choose to what to do based on its social meaning (Weber [1919] 1946). Weberian rati... . Charisma is a word from the Christian Bible and its theology. It means a gift from God. Weber says th
- Translation
- eological conception of linguistic difference and its relation to other kinds of difference. In general... ning also involve the alienation of language from its speakers and its conditions of use. Such formal translations thus exist in contradiction with the impl... and legitimate. Not only does each culture create its own translation practices, but each culture also
- Society
- her. But an organism is also more than the sum of its parts. * A society is **__not__ like a building*... of the specialized elements of a social system is its "structure." Social machines do need a solid fram... ld be the bones and skin. An organism is not just its bones and skin, though. It also has to have syste... what individuals really do for society. They are its fuel. (Or, in the organism metaphor, its food.) S
- Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
- tell us about human societies? Anthropology has its own special way of tackling this. * Anthropolog... ology looks broadly at the human condition in all its diversity because it wants to draw a general conc... ciety is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. A society is a collective consciousness. *... eim 1964 [1895]: 14). * The essence of society is its solidarity. Society perdures in time because the
- Emile Durkheim
- possessing a consciousness which was only partly its own, and partly something that belongs to a fusio... ntegrated system which is greater than the sum of its parts. As Durkheim often emphasizes, a thing *sui... n, we cannot look to where it comes from, or what its origins are. Because it is a "social fact" we can... can have a function that is quite different from its stated purpose. ### Sanctions and social solida
- Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
- ry, autobiography, joke, gossip. Each culture has its own genres, but many cultures have a genre of nar... have thought a lot about their own community and its culture. People like this are similarly drawn to ... receive their education in a foreign language and its culture. Talal Asad argues that languages of th... ers, and so ethnography cannot simply assume that its "translation" of culture is between equally value
- Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
- e best]]. Chinese civilization has also developed its own form of ethnocentrism as a way of representin... gone anthropology has struggled to shed itself of its own ethnocentric roots and develop a new approach... fferences based on a holistic study of culture on its own terms and in its own context. Most explanations of behavior in contemporary anthropology are based
- The practice of social theory @6916:2020
- ng conscious of itself and thus able to transcend its own original conditions and take command of its destiny. Lately, many have voiced their fear that the... ciety is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. In this regard, Marx’s social theory is t... onceptual tools. Rather than seeking to transcend its conditions, theories coming from below are also a
- Putting it all together @1002:2018
- gy. Anthropology is a study of humanity in all of its diversity. Cultural anthropology examines this d... tter or worse." * "Every culture eventually loses its distinctive traditions and becomes modern." ##... w ways to reproduce itself and continue to pursue its goals. * **Dichotomous categories often mislead... servation and sustainability * global warming and its effects on local environments These things don't
- About this seminar @3601:2020
- n the field about the nature of anthropology, and its main goal is to help you discover what you believ... o anthropologists? Anthropology’s eclecticism and its lack of a single, clearly defined paradigm gives ... gation to be able to defend one’s perspective and its relevance to other fields and to scholars at larg... develop your own relationship to anthropology and its history, and to say why you adopt your stance on
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- ociety, as a collective consciousness, imposes on its members' consciousnesses. Social facts appear to ... ntegrated system which is greater than the sum of its parts. **Mechanical solidarity** is feeling like ... e people who make it up, then a society must have its own totality as a social fact. Through ritual, th... consider. The first is why would a society teach its members to feel anxiety over taboos? Is there any
- Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
- Meyer. ## Explaining African Christianity and its diversity ## Here are some key terms I'd like u... ## * European intellectual history is plagued by its reliance on Biblical chronology, or the belief th... egions, they wanted to spread Christianity, for its own sake, and for reasons of establishing a com... ism came to African societies relatively early in its history. One good example is the Christ Apostolic
- David Harvey
- Marx writes in the //Grundrisse//: > Capital by its nature drives beyond every spatial barrier. Thus ... alism that wherever capital encounters a limit of its own ability to grow, it works to transform this l... 10). For the most part, capital does this through its influence over the state. In a capitalist system,... s on the map and bend space any which way to suit its needs. Hence, for Harvey, the globalization of t
- The moral economy @1002:2018
- to capitalism, and what ultimately would lead to its demise. He argued that capitalism, like any social system, is defined by its contradictions. The contradictions of capitalism ... sponsible; they don't care if the compant meets its quotas * Indigenous people are backward; they thi
- "Sanguma em i stap": Ethnographic citizenship and epistemic exclusion in Tok Pisin sorcery stories since 1945 @talks:sanguma
- Gender is a cultural construct and a social process—Cases of “woman-marriage” in Africa and matrimonial alliance (part 1) @1001:2020
- The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea @talks
