ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Stoicism, Great Plains, Russian Literature
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Focus on criticisms of her patterns of culture. Does not account for intracultural diversity; flattens out culture. Does it conform to the ideals or is it different. Then what is the real behaviors? (ideal, expectations, reality); Ruth benedict, the chrysanthemum and the sword (1946) . So its not so unusual to be all these things: during ww2. What gave rise to these: so too with this, they tried to find the origins of this character and explain it, childhood determinism. Highlighted by psychoanalysis; weaning practices, methods of giving birth, toilet training. They focused on one or the other trait as isolate to explain behavior: culture at a distance: mostly these researchers couldn"t live among the people they were studying. They also usually didn"t speak the language: arm-chair anthropology. Frustrating and painful, difficult for the child, builds up rage. It was reduced when the baby was unswaddled to be fed.
