PPT-Society, Representation and Cultural Memory

Date 190913 Society Representation and Cultural Memory 2 There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at His eyes are opened wide his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched The Angel of History must look just so His face is turned towards the past Where we see the appearance of a chain of events he sees one single catastrophe which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet He would like to pause for a moment so fair to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed But a storm is blowing from Paradise it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them The storm drives him irresistibly into the future to which his back is turned while the rubbleheap before him grows skyhigh That which we call progress is this storm . . Anthropology 5. Spring 2014. Katherine Schaefers, Instructor. Office: 3102. OH: 9:30-10:00am Monday/Wednesday. The Anthropological Study . of Religion. Chapter 1. Film: “Inventing Reality”. We use Religion/Science/Spirituality for the same goal:. for. cultural relativism. C. ultural relativism, long a key concept in anthropology, asserts that… each culture has its own values and practices.. -Carolyn . Fluehr-Lobban. . . Chronicle of Higher Education. By Dr. Frank Elwell. Credit. This presentation is based on the theory of Marvin Harris as presented in books listed in the bibliography. A summary of this and other macro-social theories can be found in . To explore the difference between reality and representation in media texts. Defining representation . What does . representation. . mean?. The . portrayal. of someone or something in a . particular way. Module C. The RUBRIC says.... This module requires students to explore various . representations of events, personalities or situations. . They evaluate . how. . medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning. The study develops students’ understanding of the . for. cultural relativism. C. ultural relativism, long a key concept in anthropology, asserts that… each culture has its own values and . practices.. -Carolyn . Fluehr-Lobban. ,. . Chronicle of Higher Education. What is culture?. Culture. - all of the shared products of human groups - - . products people create. Material culture. – physical objects that people create (cars, clothes, books, buildings). Nonmaterial culture . How could we define culture?. “[A] complex . whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. .”. - E.B. Tylor (Anthropologist). Cultural Materialism . is an anthropological paradigm founded upon, but not constrained by, . Marxist Materialistic thought. . The term Cultural Materialism, first coined by Marvin Harris in his . The Rise of Anthropological Theory. Psychology 209. February . 1, 2013. The Concept of a Distributed Representation. Instead of assuming that an object (concept, etc) is represented in the mind by a single unit, we consider the possibility that it could be represented by patterns of activation over populations of units.. Ontology Engineering. By Yuri . Tijerino. Kwansei. . Gakuin. University. 1. Funny . Engrish. 2. Funny . Engrish. 3. Funny . Engrish. 4. Funny . Engrish. 5. Funny . Engrish. 6. Funny . Engrish. 7. Motivation. James Rachels. &. Stuart Rachels. Cultural Relativism. The idea of universal truth in ethics is a myth.. The customs of different societies are all that exist.. To say that a custom is ‘correct’ or ‘incorrect’ would imply that we can judge that custom by some independent standard of right and wrong, but no such standard exists.. What is Socialization?. What is Culture? . Types of Culture. . Types of Socialization . Theories on Culture. Cultural Terms. Culture in T&T. SOCIALIZATION AND CULTURE. Socialization is the process by which individuals learn the culture of their society. . By. Dr. Suresh Chandra . Murmu. Associate . Professor. Dept of Anthropology, . Utkal. . University. Email: . smurmu10@gmail.com. . How long have anthropologists existed?. The answer depends, largely, on what one means by an anthropologist..