MATH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arnold Van Gennep, Bronisław Malinowski, Clifford Geertz
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Concepts, names, peoples you will be introduced to this week in readings (& lectures): Early (or classic) vs. contemporary anthropology vanishing cultures vs. emerging worlds. Victor turner ritual and rite of passage. As you listen to lectures and do the readings, please make note of these terms and how they are used. Other terms will come up worth noting as well. Some of them may only come up this week, but others will come up again (like malinowski and. Indigenous movements ), some of them again and again (like culture and. Here are some questions for discussion and developing answers to. Again, some of these questions will be visited again this quarter. What is the difference between early and contemporary anthropology: with respect to colonialism & the west, the concept of culture, its focus of study in terms of peoples and places and practices. What you learn about the concepts of culture and ritual in delaney"s reading.