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Religion and Economy
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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
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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
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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
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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
David Harvey
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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
Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
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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
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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
About this seminar @3601:2020
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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
Mind
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, and this is because each cultural group creates its own worldview which is internally complete and makes sense on its own terms. Each cultural group has its own subjectivity, much like each individual person has its own I-centered perspective. A culture itself are
The practice of social theory @6916:2020
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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
Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
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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
Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about @2667
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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
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
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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
Putting it all together @1002:2018
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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
Emile Durkheim
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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
Learning from Lisa @the_quest
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How to use Zotero to manage a bibliography @the_quest
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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Taparoro: Missionary Translation and its Rivals in the Coral Sea Contact Zone @talks
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Tetela
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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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Summary of topics and readings @3601:2020
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Do religions mix? @2667
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DokuWiki @wiki
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Max Weber
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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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Welcome back to 1002! @1002:2018
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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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Reciprocity
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Tylor's definition of culture @1001:2020:tutorials
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Stating a thesis @the_quest
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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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Metaphor
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Marcel Mauss and the gift @1002:2018
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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The origins of cultural anthropology @1001:2020
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Parents @2654
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City air makes you free @1002:2018
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Do the dead have rights? @1002:2019
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Assessing Mauss’s influence: An exercise in research skill @1002:2020
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Print prestations: The social embeddedness of reading publics in colonial Papua @talks:print
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Semantics and pragmatics
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Welcome back to ANTH 1002 @1002:2019
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The tribe next door: The New Guinea Highlands in a postwar Papuan mission newspaper @talks:tribe
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Difference
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Welcome to ANTH 1002 @1002:2018
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The moral economy @1002:2018
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The obligations of the gift @1002:2019
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Learning outcomes @2667
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Can religion change the world? @2667
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Around the world in 13 weeks @1002:2018
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Qualitative analysis of a birth interview @1002:2020
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Constructive criticism of a colleague’s Mauss research @1002:2020
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What we do in class @1002:2018
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Critique of your own cultural assumptions @1002:2020
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Readings, other class requirements, and online resources @1001:2020
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Personhood
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Containers
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About this seminar @6916:2020
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Enao
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Assessments @2667
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Online components @1002:2018
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Kula
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Remittance networks and stratified reproduction @1002:2018
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Gifts and commodities @1002:2018
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Meyer Fortes
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Marriage
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What is anthropology, and why should we care? @1002:2020
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Do all societies become secular? @2667
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Karl Marx
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The charisma of the coronavirus @1001:2020
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Formatting Syntax @wiki
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Week 12: Liberalism and its others @3601:2020
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Commodities
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Develop-man @1002:2018
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Key informants
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Emic and etic
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Megadeath @1002:2019
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Why would someone join a religious commune? @2667
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ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory and anthropology @3601:2020
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Some history @2654
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Auhelawa prohibitions
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The Quest: Discovering new ideas through research @the_quest
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Brainstorming @the_quest
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How to cite sources @the_quest
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Spheres of exchange @1002:2019
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Franz Boas and the culture concept @1001:2020
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