MC ANTH 4
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- Grief and Headhunter’s Rage
- You must not only ask questions but experience for yourself in order to understand others.
- Alternating Sounds
- Look at cultures on their own terms and try not to make judgments
- Coming of Age in Samoa
- In order to improve our society through observing others. What we perceive as natural is actually cultural.
- Body Ritual Among Nacirema
- We misinterpret others as having traditions, which are in reality new or ordinary daily activity with no deep cultural meaning.
- Microcultural Incidents in Ten Zoos
- Other cultures are often compared to American culture. This distorts conclusions and gives us a biased perspective.
- Pick Up Scene (Film)
- We stop seeing reality because we are making assumptions from a mismatched context.
- The Uncanny Valley
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Something can be both strange and familiar.
What does it mean to be human? - The Hand Thing
- We can analyse our own fictional creation in order to learn about ourselves i.e. the future. (SF)
- Funes, The Memorious
- Forgetting is essential to truly understand the unfamiliar. (Fuzziness)
- Making of an Anthropologist
- In order to understand the self you must understand the other.
- Argonauts of the Western Pacific
- Must view things from native’s perspective, not from an outsider’s perspective. Imponderabilia.
- Diary in the strict sense⬦
- He learns about himself through his initial judgments of the unfamiliar.
- Fieldwork in Morocco
- Relationships are essential in understanding the way in understanding yourself and others.
- A Writing Lesson
- Literacy instills power and authority and class structures within authority.
- What do Drawings Want?
- Drawing is corporeal action that creates a bond with the subject that is being drawn. Actually witnessing and bonding with a person or place.
- Moral Models in Anthropology
- Denies the Gramcian interpretation of Marxism as Symbolic, rather than physical.
- Moral Primacy of the Ethical
- Anthropologists have a political duty to help those they are observing and must enter the field on a equal level as the subjects.
- Let us Now Praise Famous Men
- Perception is derived from physical interaction with the immediate world.
- Sweetgrass
- Perception, listening
- The Social Skin
- The body is a frontier for the biological, psychological and social self. Also a stage for drama of socialization enacted through symbols (i.e. hair or ear piercing)
- Making Up People
- Description is key to social construction. Human categories are a social construct.
- High School (film)
- Social Change. Rules clash between two generations.
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do
- Intergenerational, focus on anxieties of switching media forms. Looking
- Text Message Break Up (Youtube)
- Different forms of social media in order to communicate intimate and private parts of our lives. Anonymity is taken away and things made public.
- Pre-eminence of right hand
- Body can be symbolically related to societal structures to produce deeper cultural meaning and divides.
- Time, Sugar and Sweetness
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Historical socio-cultural processes shape our preferences.
- Supply-side Sushi
- Our change in preferences are shaped by globalization. This is illustrated through the global commodity chain of tuna.
- Larry Harlow (film)
- Switching between codes, alternating languages.
- Terror as Usual
- Terror is considered normal in many societies. It is hidden by expanding institutions and is perpetuated by talking about it. It is structural violence, not just physical.
- Girl in the Cast
- Reflects on early experiences in life to learn about self later.
- El Reflejo (film)
- Reflect on other to learn about self.
- Indulgence
- Creates an exception that if everyone else is indulging, it is acceptable. Basing the self off of the majority. Institutions provide a location where exceptions of indulgence are acceptable. “deserveâ€
- Buffet
- Freedom of choice. Is there true freedom. Is it a way of creating a flourishing world or is it a trap?
- Gender of Brazilian Trans. Prostitutes
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Pair of nature and sex, vs. nature and culture is contested
Sharing gender with women even though ‘non-men’ have penis - Quit Sniveling, Cryo Baby⬦
- Motherhood used to be divided into biological and social but this was not disrupted by sperm donation. Its ontologically changed by new technology.
- Statement on “Raceâ€
- Eugenics are replaced with race as a culture concept in anthropology
- Donors, Daddies, Surrogates, Lawyers
- Overlapping of relationships that we associate with genetics doesn’t happen.
- The Companion Species Manifesto
- Nonhuman beings are something we live with and they share our lives and the meanings we make
- Symbols aren’t simple
- Signs are not exclusively human. All species require communication. Icon, Index, Symbol.
- Forgetting Proper Names
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The phonetic aspects of language are strongly associated with memories and the context of how and when they were imprinted on the mind
Reframing of what was going on inside the person.