CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clifford Geertz, Raymond Williams, Edward Burnett Tylor
8 Sep 2016
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Eric gable anthropologist; author of a&e: guinea-bissau, africa, monticello, va. Culture is : the traditions & behavior of a community influenced by enviro. & time: transmitted from the past & hopes for the future, a complex whole which incl. knowledge, belief, morals, art, law, custom, & any other capabilities & habits acquired by humans as members of society. Culture is more like navigating a sea to different variables instead of it being stratigraphic, where you have to peel back layers to get one core point, Identity comes up a lot in regards to culture. Culture is a key word, raymond williams, social historian w/ a neo-marxist train of. Iv. thought: literally, opens the door to a whole range of understandings, key words have different meanings through time. 3rd shift shift to a adj. (late 19th cent. ) Culture (3 types according to raymond williams: abstract. Independent noun (sing. /plural: the arts & humanities.
