ANTHR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cockfight, Clifford Geertz, Ethnocentrism
24 Jan 2018
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Process of producing detailed description of cultural processes long term intensive face to face research. Understand cultural systems on their own terms. Relativism is the exact opposite of ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism- evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one"s own culture. How individuals create/modify concepts to make sense of the world. How social phenomena emerge from everyday practice. Culture- system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of. Deep play: notes on the balinese cockfight: which people communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge and attitudes toward life .
