when parents‚ friends‚ or fellow members of our society recall them for us. The associative ability of our memories largely relies on our cultural surroundings. Clifford Geertz maintains that our expectations are conceptualized through our general stock of theoretical concepts as defined by our cultures. In this view Geertz is in agreement with Halbwachs’ concept of social frameworks of memory. In response to his critics‚ Michael Foucault invokes Halbwachs’ social frameworks by asserting that
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Translation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Fan Shouyi. 1994. ‘Translation Studies in China: Retrospect and Prospect’‚ Target 6‚ 2‚ 151-76. Fong‚ Gilbert. 1995. ‘Translated Literature in Pre-Modern China’. Chan & Pollard 1995‚ 580-90. Geertz‚ Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. Selected Essays. New York: BasicBooks‚ 1973. Hopper‚ Simon. 1995. ‘Reflexivity in Academic Culture’. Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique after Postmodernism‚ ed. B. Adam & S. Allan‚ New York: New
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What is sport? With reference to Clifford Geertz’s article‚ ‘Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight‚’ sport can be a means for fostering community relationships through settling disputes and violence in a ritualized manner. The descriptive analysis of the “deep play” of the Balinese cockfight serves to provide an essential insight into the profound social and cultural structure that exists within Balinese communities. The cockfight enables competitors to channel their inner aggression and
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as the culture‚ language and rituals. More importantly‚ it presents the question of “what religion is” and if it can be given a definite definition. ‘Anthropological Study of Religion’ focuses on the social scientists that risen religion and its anthropology. Max Muller‚ William Robertson Smith‚ Edward Burnett Tylor‚ and James G. Frazer were among the social scientists whose research helped
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The Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have been a key site of anthropological study for over a century. Trobrianders were first made famous by Bronislaw Malinowski in the early twentieth century‚ and were studied further by anthropologists such as Annette Weiner. Katherine Lepani’s ethnography‚ Islands of Love‚ Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands‚ provides a modern analysis of HIV in the cultural context of the Trobriand Islands. Lepani sought to display HIV in the Trobriands as
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Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Creswell‚ J. W. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Denzin‚ N. K. (1989). Interpretive interactionism. Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage. Denzin‚ N. K.‚ & Lincoln‚ Y. S. (Eds.). (2005). Handbook of qualitative research (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Geertz‚ C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. New York: Basic Books. Greenblatt‚ S. (1997). The touch of the real. Representations‚ 59‚ 14-29. Holloway
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Anthropology and gender Introduction: anthropology and its theories Before tackling subareas and intersections of the field such as anthropology and gender‚ it is necessary to question what Anthropology is. The common knowledge about this discipline is most of the time permeated with misconceptions and myths‚ which La Fontaine tries to refute in his book “What is Social Anthropology” (1985). Firs of all‚ the author starts from exposing what anthropology is not: it is not the study of exotic and
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forced to adopt other useful tactics that would result in positive outcomes. This document will focus on several aspects of cross-cultural conflicts; A) Conflict assumptions. B) Cultural constituted phenomenon. C) Devaluation of groups‚ and D) Interpretive theory. Background: In 1990‚ the Federal Government declared that seven continuous census tracks in Brockton Massachusetts‚ made up a Medically Underserved Area (MUA). That the area from Oak Street to Nilsson Street the medical needs of that
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produced within a particular person‚ system‚ or culture. This meaning then frames and motivates the actions of individuals and groups. "Events are not just there and happen‚ but they have a meaning and happen because of that meaning‚" wrote Clifford Geertz. Meaning is also historically formed. For example; body image varies across cultures and is shaped by the specific meaning given to it by a culture. There is a time dimension involved in this same process‚ too. Western societies tend to value
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For my ethnography project I chose to study the life at the library located at Bryant University. A library is a key component in a culture‚ giving people a perfect environment to study‚ learn‚ work‚ and preserve important information from the past and the present. In order to maintain good grades in college‚ students have to dedicate a handful of their time to studying for each of their classes. Most college students prefer to study and do work in the library due to its quiet and peaceful atmosphere
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