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- thropologists explain every situation in terms of culture; and many do not and look for other explanations.... and values, just as if anthropology was itself a culture. - Anthropologists have always borrowed from ot
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- larism ===== Both flux and order are part of the culture concept as an explanation of human diversity. ... al environment. This is the critical edge of the culture concept. It challenges the dominant explanations ... psychology. Implied in the critical edge of the culture concept is the universal claim that all people are incomplete without the input of culture. * Clifford Geertz * Emile Durkheim’s //homo
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- Wolf seeks order as well, but not in the form of culture as abstract system of thought. He might instead a... g else. Can we also say this about societies and cultures? ===== A dialectic process is the working-out o... ecognition between Orokaiva and the (neo)colonial culture. What happens next? * Orokaiva people are Oroka
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- ent ways: * The world is a mosaic of different cultures. * Societies of the world are part of a strati... in and among societies in favor of the “mosaic of cultures” view (or the //Star Trek// view). Both views h... a global system that incorporates many different cultures and communities on unequal terms. * Colonialis... nces of colonial invasion as the “death” of their culture and social systems raises the question of what an
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- ure 1986, 19). * The linguistic analogy for culture says that people’s shared worldview is a structur... bject takes us to the boundary between nature and culture. ===== The universalism of the split subject has... hropologist.” * Aliens are portrayed as having “cultures” in the sense of having distinct philosophies or... each planet characters are stereotypes of their “cultures”: * Klingons are a “warrior culture” based on
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- anthropologists to apply a linguistic analogy to culture: Possessing a cultural worldview is like being fl... they each have different systems of signs. ===== Cultures are like languages because language is a medium for culture ===== A sign is a sound-pattern that stands for ... %%_ ) ===== A closed economy of signs means each culture is ethnocentric ===== ( “ejeba” | 🎈 ) ( “boka”