ANT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Shepard Fairey, Keith Haring, The Notorious B.I.G.
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Liminal = between statuses (15 years old, transferring from a boy to a man) Limnoid = limnoid phenomenon is rooted in individual choice/individual rights. To the prof, popular culture is limnoid, you"re free to reject it. Culture plays a vital role in: expression of cultural idenity, wellbeing of social groups, it"s funcional and useful. Populist theories: believe in cultural hybridizaion (diferent cultural tradiions brought together) Examples of persistence/endurance of popular culture: toys, gum, musical instruments. What forms of power does popular culture possess: poliical commentary/protesing, source of acivism, resistance, world view and ideals. The good things in life: some people like communal obligaions, others prefer to do what they want to do when they want to do it. Youth: much more impressionable, first to pick up on new ideas, early adopters of new fashion. Ethnography the writen form that you read and learn from = method = paricipant observaion is used to generate ethnographic text.
