ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - George Lakoff, Asceticism, Azawagh Arabs
15 Apr 2012
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Vsi chapter 7; pdf - rituals in american birth. *assignment #2 - one page reading response = due: february 5, 2010. Fieldwork and ethnography as the methods of anthropology. Culture is always changing (not static) - shared patterns of learned behaviour. Boas - cultural lens through which members of a culture can see the world. **symbiotic relation between what we learn and how we see the world - mutually sustaining. We try to make our lives meaningful and comprehend what is happening around us to create meaning. Feeding desire - islamic worldview (religious) = shapes the entire culture and their views: tied to religion and religious beliefs, secular and religious worldviews (i. e. in canada) - money vs. religion (coexist) Chapter 7 -vsi - thinking about worldview - humans and weather. Were successful in both cases in making the rain come - their worldviews were correct (in their eyes) and their reality continued.
