ANTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Waste Picker
10 Aug 2018
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Essay: comparison between two authors (implicit and explicit arguments) on the nature of culture. Similar =/ identical because they are nevertheless, different communities: ex. Comparison of cow and car: co(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples/pro(cid:272)esses/values . Impossible to perform action without bringing together different aspects of culture: aspects being broken down and reconceptualized as a unifying process. Holism: in some way interconnected, interdependent processes unifying process provides context for other aspects. = simplification of reality to allow us to think about it: while systems in reality are internally integrated they are always connected with other systems, car = from outside transformed reconstructed become. Pitjantjatjara: catadores: rubbish = from outside world, nuer lived in relation with neighbouring people embedded in larger system of network. Informal activities: why does city space take the form it does? (concentrate on roads and houses, space making in functional terms, roads because we are a system that relies on roads for mobility.
