Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Telefol People
2 Dec 2016
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1020e way-points 19 jan 2016: last week. Malinowskian ethnography, holism and the notion of cultural integration: the case of okmanip"s illness (cid:523)telefolmin(cid:524: next week. Kinship and the facts of life: monaghan and just, ch. American cultural anthropology and models of culture. British social anthropology and models of society. Marcel mauss: kula and potlatch compared and the role of reciprocity. Quiz prep: boas and malinowski trained first significant generation of professional anthropologists (us, uk), and both were (cid:498)public intellectuals(cid:499) (cid:523)addressing the public about issues of concern(cid:524) Boas: understood within context of the social system as a whole. Ongoing behavioural flow and holistic account of social life. This implies analytic or interpretive relativism: actions or ideas (cid:523)forerunner of the (cid:498)case method(cid:499) in ethnography(cid:524) Saving the data and rescuing the past by recording (cid:498)memory culture(cid:499) culture as psychological or mental phenomenon. Habits of thought and action largely tacit, if not unconscious. Interested in processes of change borrowing, innovation, etc.
