ANTH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ingroups And Outgroups, Essentialism, Filial Piety
6 Feb 2018
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20%, on points: 7 multiple-choice or fill in the blank questions (2 points each), 4 (choice of 5) 3-6 sentence questions (6 points each), 1 approx. three paragraph question from the being there readings (12 points). Essentialism: essentialism is a danger for intercultural learning, essentialism is an abuse of generalization. It assumes an unchanging uniform identity to a group, and therefore ignores historical change, the illusion of boundedness, internal variation, and human agency: people commonly generalize - essentialization is taking generalization too far. Individualistic self: all of the way people see themselves is as an individual (who you are) Self-reliant: most things are believe to come from you, you make yourself in the world. Context-dependent: you see yourself in a different context. My identity is different with the engagement with different types of people. No intrinsic self to cannot possess enduring qualities: Self as an entity within concrete situations or roles.
