ANTHRO 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edmund Husserl, Marshall Sahlins, Culture Shock
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Anthropologists take a step back from the natural attitude, taken-for-granted assumptions of the world. There has been this whole process of socialization since we were infants. Cultural anthropologiste don"t begin from a point of acceptance. Take a step back and question what we know about humans. Learn about it, be open to that difference. Taken-for-granted: our unquestioned everyday experience of the world. Violence can be a major response to change. Ex: 9/11 -> almost a decade of war. Structure in the early history of the sandwich islands kingdom. Typical reaction is to fall back on what you know. We try/need to be open to realizing that we do not have the monopoly on knowledge of what it means to be human. Two cultures coming into contact and affecting each other. Estrangement: moments where we are fired to examine our taken-for-granted assumption, all of sudden we become strange to ourselves, we step out.
