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    Pancasila. It is the Indonesia’s philosophical foundation. The term of “Pancasila” etymologically is derived from two old Javanese words (originally from Sanskrit): panca meaning five‚ and sila meaning principles. It encompasses five principles considered to be inseparable and interrelated. First is belief in the one and only God. Second is just and civilised humanity. Third is the unity of Indonesia. Fourth is democracy guided by the inner wisdom in the unanimity arising out of deliberations amongst

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    References: Clifford Geertz‚ “Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture‚” The Interpretation of Culture‚ (NY: Basic Books‚ 1973)‚ Chapter 1 Retrieved 11/4/10 from http://academic.csuohio.edu/as227/spring2003/geertz.htm

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    Jan15th‚ 2008 Cultural Anthropology -Margaret Mead went to eastern Samoa in 1925 when she was 23‚ and spent nine months in the field studying childrearing patterns and adolescent behaviour -Renato Rosaldo the Ilongot Head-hunters -Clifford Geertz: the Balinese cockfight -Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian: what Samoans consider “good and proper body” and the meanings of making babies into “good and proper bodies” Anthropology 025 Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology Ethnographic

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    Cross-cultural studies in the social sciences[edit] Main article: cross-cultural studies The term "cross-cultural" emerged in the social sciences in the 1930s‚ largely as a result of the Cross-Cultural Survey undertaken by George Peter Murdock‚ a Yale anthropologist. Initially referring to comparative studies based on statistical compilations of cultural data‚ the term gradually acquired a secondary sense of cultural interactivity. The comparative sense is implied in phrases such as "a cross-cultural

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    Primordialist Model- model developed in the 19610’s‚ Clifford Geertz‚ essay “The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the new states. Describes how many 3rd world countries try to build nations and integrate their political institutions based on “civil order” a political system based

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    from the French by Robert Hurley Freud‚ S. (1950). Totem and taboo : some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics / by Sigmund Freud ; authorized translation by James Strachey. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul‚ 1950 Geertz‚ C Kuper‚ A.‚ & Kuper‚ J. (1996). The social science encyclopedia / edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper. London ; New York : Routledge‚ 1996. La Fontaine‚ J. S. (1985). What is social anthropology? / Jean La Fontaine. London ; Baltimore‚ Md. :

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    traditions but may not fully understand the origins or reasons why they are celebrated. In fact there are a large amount of Jews in Israel who consider themselves to be secularised. The final claim in this essay is that of Judaism being a culture. Clifford Geertz speaks on the idea of culture in his book “the Interpretations of Culture”: “In any case‚ the culture concept to which I adhere has neither multiple referents nor‚ so far as I can see‚ any unusual ambiguity: it denotes an historically transmitted

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    It is in this context that the present paper contrasts the importance of two divergent approaches to training‚ approaches that are either universalistic (etic) or particularistic (emic) in nature. While most extant literature on cross-cultural communication focuses primarily on culture-specific-emic-approaches‚ this paper stresses the value of also drawing on pan-cultural-universalistic-approaches. We illustrate the utility of such an approach through the example of "politeness" theory (Brown & Levinson

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    Narrative Therapy Michael White and David Epston are the originators of what has come to be known as narrative therapy. Narrative therapy is a simple way‚ accentuating the main ideas A respectful‚ non-pathologizing and non-blaming approach in working with people‚ separating people from the problem. ’The person is never the problem; the problem is the problem’ and enables them to recognize their skills‚ resources‚ and Values that move it in life‚ to broaden and enrich the look on his / her history

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    the definition of the interpretive approach and Clifford Geertz’s‚ which defines culture as a meaning system which members use to interpret the world around them. Culture basically affects and influences our way of communicating with one another because culture and communication are interdependent. The way we act and the things we say determine the culture we belong to and on the other hand culture determines how we act and communicate. As Geertz puts it; every specific act‚ every utterance‚ every

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