ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Uee, Neoliberalism, Cockfight
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The written description and analysis of an anthropologists experiences and interactions with a group of people. Culture: the system of meanings about the nature of experience that is shared by a people and passed from one generation to the next. Description /details of the culture (to things, events, activities, and people) Culture enables people to make sense of life experiences and to understand the experiences as meaningful in specific ways. Cultural text: a way of thinking about a culture as a text of significant symbols- words, gestures, drawings, natural objects- that carries meaning. Clifford geertz suggests that humans impose meanings on their experiences so they can comprehend experience or the world (cid:449)ould see(cid:373) like (cid:862)a (cid:272)haos of poi(cid:374)tless a(cid:272)ts a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)plodi(cid:374)g e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s(cid:863) He also sa(cid:455)s that hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s are (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plete or u(cid:374)fi(cid:374)ished a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als (cid:449)ho (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es through (cid:272)ulture (cid:374)ot (cid:272)ulture i(cid:374) ge(cid:374)eral, (cid:271)ut spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) for(cid:373)s of it(cid:863) (cid:272)ulture fro(cid:373) (cid:862)the (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e"s poi(cid:374)t of (cid:448)ie(cid:449)(cid:863) (cid:894)mali(cid:374)o(cid:449)ski(cid:895)
