CAS AN 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Trobriand Islands, Clifford Geertz, Lactose Intolerance
27 Mar 2014
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One thing the bolynese do when they go into trance. The ensemble of use, costumes, tradition, habits, history shared by a specific group of people- a mixture of tangible and intangible heritage that a community shares and transmits through time. The defining characteristics of a society and that society"s ways of life, what they consider normal or special to them . The essence of a group of people that unites and defines them . When he was graduate student in 1960s. Questions about how loaded words be quality: science, art, culture: how they change over time, how they give us insights into the changing understandings. How word culture has changed, and how we need to develop new meaning. Used to refer to physical and natural processes only. First shift was metaphorical: tending nature to tending human development. Word went from a process (verb, attending to nature), to a product (of that process)
