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between rural and urban societies? ## What is a contemporary society? ## This class is about the conditions of life and society in the contemporary world. The contemporary world is: * Interconnected. Everyone lives in some kind of conjuncture of cultures ... ists argue that you cannot understand life in the contemporary world by a **"from-to" story**, e.g. from traditi

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es in an intersection of two or more systems. * Contemporary societies are all different, but we can understan... creativity. ## Snake and mongoose ## That is, contemporary life is defined by its contradictions. There are ... One 3000-level unit, typically either ANTH 3601 (contemporary theories) or ANTH 3602 (reading ethnography) #

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ations in which people live. ## Culture and the contemporary world ## Classical anthropology has a bias towa... f anthropology's key ideas in order to understand contemporary societies. ## A guide to the unit ## {{page>1

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le in your family because you love them. But in contemporary societies--like Kabre, Maimafu, Mount Hagen, Trin... pective, remittances are also a major part of the contemporary global economy, especially from the perspective o

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ifferences. We examine several different kinds of contemporary situations in which people live as a way to intro... d how anthropologists apply these key concepts to contemporary situations, and what kinds of competing explanati

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ent * Anthropology is relevant to understanding contemporary life. * Anthropology's key concept - culture -

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then talk about why this matters to understanding contemporary society. ## References ## Anonymous. late 20th

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stem is also a very useful lens for understanding contemporary societies. This week, I'd like to develop these t

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Distanciation and the Generation of Power". In A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism: Power, Proper

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ity in a Post-Touristic Sepik River Society.” The Contemporary Pacific 25 (2): 221–57. https://doi.org/10.1353/c

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le in your family because you love them. But in contemporary societies--like Kabre, Maimafu, Mount Hagen, Trin

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through the lens of culture. To understand many contemporary issues, you need to understand culture and how cu

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w media, and see how the week’s issues enter into contemporary cultures. * Ask questions, discuss, and listen

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ity in a Post-Touristic Sepik River Society.” The Contemporary Pacific 25 (2): 221–57. doi:10.1353/cp.2013.0031.

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anthropology by looking at big issues concerning contemporary societies around the world. We are trying to show

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