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- research-exercise @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
- 1.1 @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
- 8.1 @1002:2024
- facts. Is this the best way to think about these ideas? ===== People see the world differently. Is this... 2018; Englund 1996; Newell 2007). ===== Liberal ideas of modern politics and citizenship are based on b... of rational thinking that is free of traditional ideas and cultural biases. But these societies are, li... ars often don’t appreciate one part of Durkheim’s ideas, society is something you feel. He is famous for
- 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
- 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
- cultural-critique @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
- 7.1 @1002:2024
- What does the future hold? ===== Let’s share our ideas with each other with this Mentimeter poll. Go to... d interdependent. ===== What is a nation? ===== Ideas like nation and ethnicity sound simple, because w... there nations? ===== Gellner’s (and Anderson's) ideas are useful, but he doesn’t go far enough. Think ... embers of real communities (Chatterjee 1998). * Ideas of a nation based on sameness mean that actual me
- weekly_writing @1002:2024
- ticated they sound. It is OK to be unsure of your ideas and to write about things where you haven’t made ... p up the good work. If you’d like to discuss your ideas from a particular week, just send your tutor an e... l struggle will mainly happen in chewing over big ideas together in our seminar meetings. To get ready, w... ges you to make a weekly habit of taking stock of ideas and turning them over in your mind before class.
- what-we-will-do @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
- attendance @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
- 1.1 @1002:2024
- biggest problems societies face today? Write some ideas down. ===== What is anthropology, and what is it... long tradition of critical thought. Consider the ideas of “the young [[:Marx|Marx]]”, who believed he an... warm-up exercise. They will help you collect your ideas about a topic before class so you can have someth... rial. * Receive feedback from tutors about your ideas. * Lather, rinse, repeat… ===== References and
- 4.2 @1002:2024
- lot in everyday life, but their dominant cultural ideas about kinship obscure the practical importance of kinship. Schneider’s ideas help us to show this. ===== American kinship is ... ent their kinship relationships. * Symbols are ideas that stand for other ideas. * Symbolic thinking is not a choice. A culture teaches people to apply sym
- 1.1 @1002:2022
- biggest problems societies face today? Write some ideas down. ===== The biggest problems don’t have easy... warm-up exercise. They will help you collect your ideas about a topic before class so you can have someth... . * **Receive feedback** from tutors about your ideas. * Lather, rinse, repeat… ===== References and
- 4.1.1 @1002:2019
- ogy. He argued that it was wrong to view people's ideas about witchcraft as a sign of irrationality. Ot... ionally connected__ to other patterns, rules, and ideas, and together they serve to maintain society as a... sorcery. It seemed a perfect test case for their ideas about social **function**: * Witchcraft and sorc
- 9.2 @1002:2024
- sessed with sex. Why? Even if we do reject their ideas, it is still worth asking this question because w... e 20th century as a challenge to pseudoscientific ideas: - that humans belonged to different racial ty... riginal, biological African race. ==== Du Bois’s ideas are developed by Omi and Winant ==== Michael Omi