SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cultural Universal, Dynamic Structures, Emo

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Natasha Ferenczi

Document Summary

Consolidating what we have learned (week 12, november 29, 2016) Geertz describes enlightenment assumptions of man that portray the evolution of man as sequential, 1st the biological was completed and then cultural began. A stratigraphic view of humans with the goal to discern the underlying, unchangeable fleshless measurable natural man", and cultural universals. Geertz argues for an optic on evolution that views it more as a positive feedback system between the body and brain (ex. It is in understanding the variety among humans, the variousness, its range, its nature, it"s implications that we should come to construct a concept of human nature (394) There is no human nature independent of culture. Geertz (1973) the impact of the concept of culture . Delaney (390) culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete . R. williams coined the term in 1954 to discuss the relationship between dramatic conventions and written text.