ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward Sapir, Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Foot Binding
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Lecture 3: history of anthropology i: recapitulation and continuation: anthropology as reversed gaze . Great amount of reading and, following from that, a tendency to talk about things eloquently of which one has little to know knowledge. Anxiety about grades (asking about exam questions, extra work to boost grades) Upper middle class is dominant class in anthropology class rooms (at least in us classrooms of liberal arts colleges) Commodification of education: student becomes the client, teacher the provider. The commodity sold is not knowledge or education, or ability to think critically and independently, but success in the professional world; the university teaches the rules of the corporate world. This is certainly a critical look at north american university culture, a challenge, and the question becomes how to respond to it. This is certainly not true: an outsider can be very biased and unsympathetic, completely unwilling to understand. Hardly so, and many people will probably resist this categorization.