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- 1.2 @1002:2024
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== The reality of society ====== ===== The reality of society ===== ==== Week 1: Why do we need anthropology? / Economic rationality and the reality of society ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002: Anthropology in th... **societies are based on fictions**. Members of a society live as if their shared fiction is true. This cl
- 7.1 @1002:2018
- Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American ... l and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This class is about the conditions of life and society in the contemporary world. The contemporary wor... their interactions with other cultures, and every society is a product of their history. * Complex. Many di
- 13.1 @1002:2024
- as and the development of anthropology ===== * Society is a thing //sui generis//. * Society is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. * A society is like a machine, or like the body of an organis... y called his “structural functionalist” theory of society. * What is most interesting about societies is
- 8.1 @1002:2024
- For Durkheim, if societies are wholes then each society is //sui generis// (Durkheim [1912] 2008, 27). * A society creates itself. * A society creates its own reality which its members accept unconsciously. All societies have one thing in common. A society must impose one idea on its members: What is sacr
- 2.1 @1002:2022
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Society as a total system ====== ===== Society as a total system ===== ==== Week 2: Society as a system of total services ==== Ryan Schram\\ ANTH 1002:... 0_-_a_cubist_painting_that_depicts_the_concept_of_society_a_society_is_a_whole_that_is_greater_than_the_sum
- 2.2 @1002:2024
- g and selling. I would like to argue that in this society many exchanges are gifts also. Mauss says that the essence of society is a “system of total services” in which everythi... , 5). It is a state of total interdependence. No society is a perfect system of total services. Every society has that idea at its heart, even if people don’t know
- 8.2 @1002:2024
- resent ===== One nation under ____. ===== Every society has answered these questions in its own way. Man... think about the relationship between religion and society. * In Christian thinking, morality is a matter... rom a primitive condition toward a modern type of society. * They may also assume that there is a special... at induces a shift to a fundamentally new kind of society. ==== Max Weber’s theories of society and social
- 3.1 @1002:2024
- e gift societies and capitalist societies. * A society is a system of total services in essence, even if... at his present was the Tiv people’s future. Is a society in which commodity exchange dominates truly a uni... Shipton 1989) ===== Inside of every contemporary society, there are two competing principles ===== ==== A provisional conclusion ==== * Every society is based on the obligations of reciprocity, even
- 4.2 @1002:2024
- race descent are the mechanism by which people in society are assigned to discrete groups. Just by tracing... rson’s ancestry through their mother or father, a society places each person in a distinct unilineal descen... in a group, it creates a structure for the whole society. ==== Not every society has unilineal descent groups ==== Claude Lévi-Strauss ([1949] 1969) argues that
- 2.1 @1002:2024
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Gifts, or society as a system of total services ====== ===== Gifts, or society as a system of total services ===== ==== Week 2:... iology and anthropology * He wanted to analyze society as an objective fact * Society is a collective consciousness, like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
- 4.1 @1002:2022
- at his present was the Tiv people’s future. Is a society in which commodity exchange dominates truly a uni... Shipton 1989) ===== Inside of every contemporary society, there are two competing principles ===== ==== A provisional conclusion ==== * Every society is based on the obligations of reciprocity, even ... obligations is not visible to the people in that society. * All societies have at least two spheres of
- 4.3.1 @1002:2019
- 12, 5). ## Kwaio ancestors People of Kwaio society live in the inland mountains of the island of Mal... facilitated by male priests of a kin group Kwaio society is another example in which the meaning of one pe... ol down" spirits' anger (Akin 2003, 397). Kwaio society in the twenty-first century reveals another parad... estor worship---has also become a record of their society's history and change. ## The symmetrical
- 3.1.1 @1002:2019
- logy and anthropology * He wanted to analyze [[:society|society]] as an objective fact * Society is a collective consciousness, like the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... ld like to introduce a major division in types of society. ### "Western" culture * Western culture value
- 4.1.1 @1002:2019
- the dead ## A question If you were raised in a society in which mourning is not practiced in this way, y... u to ask a different question: **Why doesn't your society compel you to see that you are involved in other ... s, and ideas, and together they serve to maintain society as a whole.** Because they wanted to understand ... tice or custom * the mentality of the people of a society, i.e. whether they were scientific, rational, or
- 9.1 @1002:2024
- cts, just like “sacred” and “profane.” * Every society will have its own ideas of what is “set apart and... forbidden” (Durkheim [1912] 2008, 66). And every society will likewise have its own idea of what counts as... thoughts of the collective consciousness of each society, or “social facts” (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60). * When a society’s sacred is mixed with things it classifies as pr