CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Oscar Lewis, Body Painting, Social Relation
18 Feb 2014
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We learn what is important about a particular culture or notice differences when we look at cultures in comparisons to each other. Know which anthropologist studied who, what, and where. Said that systems put down people more than they put down themselves. Which parts of the body holds different meaning. Know different types of showing culture through body. Who has long hair and who has short hair. Babies have long hair, still an extension of their mother: no longer breastfeeding, cut their hair, social meaning more than personal meaning. Women and men cut their hair for different events in their life. When someone dies, puberty: big changes, starting a new social relation in their life, a transition state, any new hair that grows related to new social state. Specific time periods in which time needs to be cut. Helping each other for the betterment of society.
