ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nacirema, Tribal Art, Turnitin
13 May 2019
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Lecture 1 (sept 6: assignments due on turnitin and hard copy at beginning of tutorials. Module 1: culture meaning and identity: racialized images, national geographic admitted to portraying the world through a racist lens. Interpretation: tactic and explicit cultural codes: biases you have. Some peoples" families don"t speak with them, but: poor and primitive society people don"t want to throw away anything in how can they fully and totally abandon them like this, especially in a wealthy society these societies. Eve, genesis, aboriginal creation stories/myths society or the world in general must operate. The cultural construction of identity ii: rites of passage, life is a process of becoming, not being, transitions and universal rights to mark transitions ex: death: going to heaven, going to another world, etc. Depends on status, circumstances, etc: ex: puberty, graduation, first communion, joining the military, baby showers, death, marriage, three stages, separation, separation from parents, family, etc, mostly from mot university, liminality.
