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Week 1:
Lecture 1 : What is anthropology
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Perspectives- making what seems strange seem familiar and making what seems
familiar seem strange.
Lecture 2
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Encounters with cultural difference are a critical part of all human experience
Cultural differences include, obvious public activities, mundane details of
daily life
Encounters with cultural difference involves comparison, which is always
from a particular perspective
Long term encounters with cultural difference correct simple ideas about
social evolution
Lecture 2:
Culture
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Anthropological words
-Ethnography
-Liminality
-Polyandry
Everyday meanings of culture
-Culture as a characteristic of a people
-Culture as high culture or civilization
Culture as a way of life
Contemporary English
-Culture as breeding of plants or animals
-culture as development of microscopic organisms
-Culture referring to high culture
-Anthropological use of culture is a democratisation of elitist use of culture
-Development through learning as something that all human beings do
-Culture is not idiosyncratic (distributed among people)
-Socially learned and learned socially
-Culture as a representation of the world
-Culture as a guide for living in the world
-Contested
-Culture is tacit, implicit and taken for granted (invisible)
Making culture visible
-How does one make culture visible (methodological problem)