GS220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Gilroy, Tim Ingold, Eurocentrism
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How is cultural analysis diferent from other forms of analysis in global. Contribuion to marxist criique of culture and arts. Famous for books: keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society (1976) Lain colere" illing the soil. Cultura" ploughed ield in middle english. Later domesicaion (as in agriculture, apiculture, viiculture) Culture as reinement metaphor of crop breeding and improvement applied to human beings" domesicaion, control, reinement of themselves: i. e. 18th century; someone who had developed interests (i. e. in certain kinds of literature and philosophy, or music) Meaning 2: acivity pursued through insituions such as museums. Opera-house version of culture the arts . Culture of new york in this meaning would refer to museums, orchestras, universiies, musical conservatories (but not factories, etc. ) Cultural insituions such as these preserve and protect the products of human reinement; they sustain them and preserve for the future. The kinds of acivity supported by a ministry of culture. Does not exist in isolaion from other meanings.
