ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deterritorialization, Egalitarianism, Participant Observation
2 Oct 2014
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Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Culture is now best seen not as an integrated entity , tied to a fixed group of people, but. A definition of culture for the present . as a shifting and contested process of constructing collective identity. A change in perspective from seeing other cultures at a distance to living in the midst of. A theoretical switch from studying static systems to studying social and cultural. The world has changed; the discipline has changed. What happened in those 141 years? diversity. processes. There is a belief that developed countries are more modern than underdeveloped. In underdeveloped countries people tend to be more constrained by tradition. This places more traditional" societies in the past (echoes of evolutionary theories) A belief in the power of science and technology to improve our lives.
