ANTH 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Symbolic Anthropology

• School: University of Adelaide
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1105
• Professor: any

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Note: exam 2 will be online in 8 days. Introduction to anthropology & fieldwork: ethnographic fieldwork, everyday life in childhood, difference: us, them, we, race and difference. Online exam 2 5pm 13 may to 11. 59pm 14 may. Note: tomorrow"s lecture will feature a 30 minute film followed by a q&a which may or may not be recorded depending upon authorisation of such. Week 9: 12 may: academic skills activity, 13 may: lecture and exam 2. Today"s lecture will heavily focus on from anthropological point of view why we desire what we desire, how appetites are produced and satiated. Here recall the ideas of pierre bourdieu (habitus) and michel foucault (archaeology of knowledge). Symbols occur in everyday life around the world and influence us both consciously and subconsciously. However, it is also out personal backgrounds and experiencers which determine how we interpret certain imagery.