ANTHRO 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Gisu People
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Phonemic: meaningful or perceived difference between sounds (phonemes) However, both sides have culture, so what the we consider etic (the outside perspective) is actually emic to the anthropologist"s culture. Must translate between different languages (typically native to european) Native"s pov is never 100%, because it is still through the anthropologist, who can never fully immerse themselves in the culture. Temporality - all experience is temporal experience (informed by our past experience and our acting in the world are informed by the future effects and meaning of our actions) Achievement on color symbolism and rites of passage. Refined the concept of liminality and defined anthropological usage of communitas. Define the rituals and categories of symbolic thought which influenced literary criticism. Studied the lele people in central africa as her research. Later studies aspects of the western society of her time rather than exotic societies. Her work on conserving anthropological modernism, based on the works of durkheim.
