ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franz Boas, Phenotype, Tibetan Diaspora
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You can draw upon the desire to come home and make it into a cultural market: Antb20 - week 11 reaffirmation of culture and a certain idea of sharedness. You are seeking a genealogical model to place yourself (e. g. adopted korean child from. American parents realize they don"t look like their adoptive parents) Culture is useful but it is also a burden: the category of culture can be essentializing or encapsulating. Culture can be seen as now taking over race ; used to be certain races were superior and now people can claim that certain cultures are superior. Intuitive ways we live our lives - habitus: ideas you have that frame the way you behave; you"re not aware of it but you recreate you because its how you perform your identity. I do this because of my culture - explicit way for thinking about who you are.
