ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ob River, Maya Deren, Cockfight
5 Oct 2017
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Anth 202 lecture 4 ways of anthropological knowing wrap up and becoming strange. Ways of knowing (finishing from last class: what do you want to know, how you go about knowing them? aus. essaycentre@gmail. com, mon-fri 10:30-11:30. Comparing the last video by asch and shagmer with the forest of bliss by gardner. Emersion into total confusion, the first unedited clip. Then explained it with the social structure, gardner did not instead he let you infer it. Cockfight reading: pandemonium and confusion, a kind of objectivity. For gertz, culture is something that is public not subjective: not just in our minds, is visible in the public manifestation of what we do, not just in the mind, things you do or say. For gertz, anthropology is science since it"s out there in the environment. Language- privilege this mode of thought. (so, gardner"s film pushes back the language and emphasizes imagistic thought)
