RLG200H1 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Anthropology, Eurocentrism, England In The Middle Ages
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From a marx perspective looking at wealth and materialism. Asad saw as being proficient in gerrtz identity of religion. What asad saw was wrong with gerrtz is the focus of the 2nd half of the course. Last week: geertz and asad w/ anthropology, culture and religion (terms) Masuzawa says: quote on slide, we should be aware every time we do so we mobilize and energize a powerful ideology of modernity**(hopes to make more clear) Genealogy: what asad does, critical of geertz: asking questions about culture and human experience, a method and technique. There are concepts and hidden meanings in everything: the architecture of our experience, the whole system of meaning is embedded in history and culture and we consistently repeat them . Religion itself: technique of historical research (comes from nietzsche and foucault) Morality isn"t timeless; morality has its own history. Looks different in different cultures eg. medieval england vs. china. This technique is used to study culture.
