ANT370H1 Lecture Notes - Bride Price, Ethnography, Human Beings In Buddhism

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For example, taking a hypothetical society, religious rituals are concerned with roles people play and what groups of people had control over resources and who didn"t. In contrast, in na it was not role organizations but culture. Frans boas, in order to fight against racial ideas that some races are superior and others inferior. Culture, learned ways talked about difference as something learned. Seeing and acting in the world, not innatly biological. Culture became imp in na bc of boas to combat racism. British critique: so abstract, that anything can be culture- religious belief, how they move bodies, table manners, what is taboo to eat. Culture is ideas and values that give meaning to these practices and organize society. We can document how people organize themselves but that doesn"t tell you why people organize in that why and why they perform certain rituals. Organiza doesn"t say what it means to them. Ideas and ideologies that reproduce social organization.

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