ANTH 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Freudian Slip, Social Death, Transnationalism
10 Dec 2017
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Making the strange familiar and the familiar strange: riddle of the sphinx, riddle of the sphinx: many things change in time, this makes for age to be one of the most challenging phenomena because it is temporal. Many people ask to wear a backpack to symbolize the power that someone who wears it regularly has. Rabinow thinks that anthropology is inherent and implicit in the power dynamic: 10. Listening: -listening as waiting: involves attention to yourself. Listening as becoming other -receptivity: we witness other humanity, experience life from their point of view. Listening to that which is not us -empirical as experiential : anthropology is interested in the multiplicity of human life: the one and the many, 11. Learning dissabilities, diseases, etc these terms have a social history and change overtime: -society (vs. culture): the idea that we are autonomous is a cultural idea vs in society where we are a whole.
