ANTH 0780 1nd Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I. Culture vs. cultureA. CultureB. cultureC. SocializationD. EnculturationII. HabitusA. Process by which we learn and come to understand socio-cultural norms throughour engagement with our social and physical environmentB. Depends heavily on material culture1. Material cultureIII. Symbols and AgencyA. SymbolB. AgencyIV. Cultural holismA. Describes culture at the most inclusive levelB. Attempts to integrate all that is known about a culture and its partsC. The whole is understood to be greater than the sum of its partsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Outline of Current LectureI. HolismA. Definition B. ExampleII. EthnocentrismA. DefinitionB. Example from readingIII. Cultural RelativismA. DefinitionB. Example Current LectureI. HolismA. Part of the anthological perspectiveB. Attempts to integrate all that is known about culture and its partsC. The whole is understood to be greater than the sum of its partsD. Cultural holism represents a system of meaningE. Example:1. The range of behaviors at Pitt sports games exhibits the student culture and represents the university as a whole2. When all the participating behaviors are put together, they symbolize what it means to be a Pitt student II. EthnocentrismA. The tendency to read symbols according to one’s system of meaningB. Idea that ones one culture is “right” and the unfamiliar system is “wrong” which leads people to position cultures within a hierarchy of cultural meaningC. Example from reading1. Conklin’s Consuming Greif problematizes the history of the word cannibalism2. Part of the colonial project: “Cannibal” term used to justify colonization of native peoples in the America3. “The imperative to stamp out cannibalism could counter any criticisms about the morality of colonial projects and the brutalities . . . that Europeans inflicted on native peoples” (Conklin 2001: 4).4. Some encounters but a great deal based on hearsay5. Used to illustrate the intrepidness of European travelers in the America6. Tries to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange7. Attempts to show how forms of cannibalism were practiced in Europe during theperiod of colonizationIII. Cultural RelativismA. Approach that attempts to take cultures on their own termsB. Limits to this occur when dealing with certain issues such as practices that can be considered violentC. Example:1. Controversy of genital
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