NMC241H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clifford Geertz, Franz Boas, Edward Sapir
13 May 2016
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Cultures plural humanity divided you can identify a" culture. Cultures are distinct yet contingent keep changing in time and places. Idea that each culture has its own multidimensional kind of trade. There is diversity and no universalism and have to understand each culture within its own context. In order to understand the culture look at the interactions between the individuals. Talking about semiotics culture practice as symbolic trying to interpret those symbols. Every little act of the people within a culture is a symbol of something else. Managed to revolutionized american anthropology and influence british anthropology. Invention of traditions idea that there is no such thing as tradition in fact it is a modern invention by nation state or the elites to get either power or other sorts of benefits out of it. The idea is that traditions aren"t invented they are being resurrected all the time.
