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-studying people
-qualitative research
-particular site
-questions framed by your politics
-makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar
-PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION: immersion, get to know more about people when you literally get to know them better |
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| -understanding boundaries, name changes, advocacy sometimes gets anthro in trouble, and intellectual property rights |
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| judging other cultures based on your own culture's standards and beliefs |
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lenses that provide us with the means to perceive the world around us
-weltanschauung = worldview in German
ex. John was disgusted by Mixtecs eating a beehive, and Mixtecs being disgusted by John's onion soup
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realizing not every society or culture does everything the same way you or your culture do
-not judging other cultures by your standards |
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-physical location
-conceptual location
-political location
-epistemological location |
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integrated whole
-1) simplistic, underlying theme (Marx though mode of production, Durkheim though society, many anthros think it's culture itself
-2)linguistic idea of grammar/underlying set of rules (culture is spoken of as code or program. life=football game)
-3)formal system where elements stand in relationship of mutual implication (norms, ideas, values, aesthetics, etc)
contested aspects:
1)the extent to which culture should be regarded as an integrated whole
2)the extent to which culture can be seen as an autonomous, superorgranic entity
3) how we can best draw boundaries around cultures
-culture has a lot to do with classification (even though the way things are classified differs, classification always exists. the way a culture classifies objects/ideas might reflect on power in the society
-SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION. based on unconscious, made up rules. though flexible, not meaningless. neither natural nor artificial |
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-using present tense to describe culture's ways
-erases the past and the future
-timeless category |
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small scale
few people
pre-industrial/technologically simple |
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| "elementary" forms of social life |
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-people living in the same year/moment/space, claiming themselves more contemporary than other 'archaic' societies
-created by developed people
-leads to dehumanization and justifies domination |
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"building"
drawing on a series of practices/beliefs/ideas/ideologies that people use to react to certain situations |
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| modern/traditional dichotomy/binary |
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many anthros distinguish societies as modern or traditional
suggest two different times
privileges some societies and demeans others
content is variable and shifting |
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everyone has the same occupation
simple |
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industrialized
specialized, interdependent jobs |
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| patterns of behavior and ideology become relatively discrete, enduring, and autonomous |
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| variety of positions in society each o |
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