ANTH-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnography, Hermeneutics, Folklore
21 Oct 2014
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Four fields, anthropology and its interlocutors; the classic culture concept. Interlocutors: sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and history, williams and the culture concept, fieldwork projects. Hermeneutics - the art and science of interpretation. Culture as a site of struggle in (f/w) Social / cultural - ethnography and ethnology; practices of the normal; patterns / structures of humanity. Mechanistic questions - see society as a mechanism. Anthropology as a hermeneutic project - perspectival field. From l. colere - to inhabit, cultivate, protect, honor and worship (87) Bacon: the culture and manurance of minds . Culture as we know it was not in use until mc19. A process occasionally; a product most often. An impressive package deal: territory = language = race = religion = people = ethnicity = culture = nation = identity. Made possible only when we entertain boundlessness as a premise. Most social groups exercise their integrity by policing what falls outside rather than what might be inside.
