ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Big Bang, Ethnocentrism, Stone Age
15 Apr 2012
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3rd section of course - progress of power. Notions of primitive cultures or peoples or practices vs. modern cultures/ peoples/ practises. Cultural and institutional power and individuality/ agency. Looking at a subculture in our own culture. Will have to write an analytical essay (due at the end of march) Final exam - will not be cumulative (explicitly) Will be based on the stuff from after the midterm. But will have to remember the things from before the midterm (i. e. what is culture, fieldwork, ethnocentrism, etc) They are not objective labels: question the labelling because it is not objective - it is value laden and a judgement. Judgment from your own perspective (i. e. our dominant culture) ethnocentric. Contemporary: modern = now ; the present day. Modern = certain type of culture or society; certain group of characteristics and ways of organizing seen as the opposite of tradition; although the two often co-exist (vsi.
