ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clifford Geertz, Nacirema, Cultural Relativism
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Definitions of culture: norm, values and beliefs that make a certain group of people unique, upbringing, rituals, music, celebrations, elements of interpersonal relationships. Notions of old ideas of culture: high culture (opera / symphony), which assumes that there is low culture. anthropology does not like this because everyone practices culture. Traditional foods, crafts, objects . stereotype notion of culture. Old anthropologists believed that certain cultures were more civilized than others. tyler"s definition does not encompass the culture in relation to how we live / organize our daily lives. Clifford geertz: focused on symbols and communication patterns and thought about how we think psychologically during cultural events but does not include how we live our daily lives. Was satire (describes what an outsider might describe american culture). Problem: does not describe the relationship. tries to warn us on othering too much".
