GBDA203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Christian Fundamentalism, Haute Cuisine, Urban Legend
26 Dec 2016
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Traditions and belief of a minimal of people. Through practice culture needs some form of a context. History ; culture grows out of history that creates context and creates an ideology. Culture is not fixed (evolves through technology) Technological determinism we believe technology gets invented so there is all kinds of consequences (ex, einston created light bulb and problems occurred like staying up later like in the workforce so we can exploit workers) (cid:862)for (cid:272)ultural (cid:272)riti(cid:272)s, culture is a process, not a product; it is a lived experience, not a fixed definition. A user-friendly guide, new york: garland, 1999, p. No historical event, artifact, or ideology can be completely understood in isolation from the innumerable historical events, artifacts, and ideologies among which it circulates, and our own cultural experience inevitably influences our perceptions, making true objectivity impossible. Because we are caught in our time and our own.
