AN101 Chapter 1: First Lecture First lecture notes on chapter 1 in the textbook
16 Oct 2011
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Study cultures: culture; is shared beliefs or views. Dogs are also a product of their culture based on how they are groomed, fed, sheltered, etc: everything is mediated through culture, we are always apart of culture. Williams civilization vs. culture dichotomy: the west/ culture- the rest; civilization vs. , barbarism; civilization as Ethnocentrism; the opinion that one"s way of life is natural or correct, indeed the only way of being fully human it reduces the other way of like to a distorted version of one"s own. Ethnocentrism in tourist industries; -hawaii for example: beautiful, empty, tries to westernize by not showing hawaii"s own culture. Afghanistan: soldiers, aftermath, no regular civilians, empty (no people, no victims, no worries). Eurocentism (a type of ethnocentrism) -the opinion of european (and neo- European) culture is natural or correct the only way of being human . Hugh trevor- roper (1965: unrewarding gyrations of barbarous tribes in picturesque but irrelevant corners of the globe .
