ANTH 2160 Lecture : ANTH2160BC9.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2160
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

2 weeks today essay due academic anthropology- theories of culture applied- debate is anthropologists should be doing applied anthro public anthropology. Technology enhances life, new technology does not necessarily replace old (writing and speaking) Age of techne- the continuity and change; homo faber humans have always crafted ourselves via cultures (agency?) what is new, per b. is that now we can craft new worlds for human sociality . Argueing we"re entering into a whole new realm of existence new and innovative. Making claim we have potential to create own worlds. Holistic ethnographic approach and again raises malinowski this time emphasizing his study of kula. Persons around the world understand themselves to belong to cultures that are discrete even if their boundaries are porous. **argues second life is a place* of human culture and goal was to understand the natives" pov idea that culture are bound wholes : malinowski . A+ for giving pov of residents in sl.