ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tibet Autonomous Region, Participant Observation, Ethnography
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What is identity: explanation of self-belonging, alignments of characteristics and actions, there are individual and group identities. Everyone has their own identities that are made from a group identity: collective identity. The connections and boundaries of the discussions between individual and group identities: may be individual or collective, may have multiple intersectional aspects. A group may all share one thing (such as language) Physical (dis)ability: what is the diference between identity and culture. Culture can be a part of one identity. You can have multiple identities in a culture. Ethnicity is a lot more physical ie i am chinese because my parents are chinese. Claims of shared ancestry: kin group > < ethnicity > < nation. What deines membership and belonging in each one. Gwrra is based on material objects that people own. Association of motorcycle group is just that one group. The members do not have connections outside of the group.
