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    but I will use 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

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    Writings. London: Cambridge University Press. Durkheim. E.‚ 1912. The Elementary Forms of the religious Life. In: Lambek. M.‚ 2002. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Ch.2. Durkheim. E.‚ 1915. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Translated from French by J.W. Swain. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Geertz. C.‚ 1957. Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example. American Anthropological Association. Blackwell Publishers. Available at <http://www

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    benefits in controlling and monitoring. However‚ this puts to manifest that human beings should not be mere variables to be studied‚ rather‚ people with specific roles that need to be understood and measured in some respects but not in all. Reference to Geertz shows that the analysis of culture doesn ’t has to be an experimental science in search of laws‚ but an interpretative science is search of meanings. The work of Lindridge & Dibb found that a new school of thought has emerged in marketing that

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    on cosmologic concepts of cycles of reincarnation that influence naming orders‚ status‚ ceremony and religion‚ social structure‚ heavily constructed with a separation of human and animal and a domestication of the natural environment (Forge 1980‚ Geertz 1973). The differences arising between Australian Aboriginal and Balinese concepts of personhood are derived from variations in ecology‚ social organization and culture that stem from the distinctive diversity of their respective natural environments

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    T. (2010) ’Archaeology and anthropology : understanding similarity‚ exploring difference.’‚ Oxford: Oxbow. Further information on publisher’s website: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/87549 Publisher’s copyright statement: Additional information: Sample chapters deposited. Chapter 1: ’Introduction : archaeological anthropology’ by Duncan Garrow and Thomas Yarrow‚ pp. 1-12. Chapter 2: ’Not knowing as knowledge: asymmetry between archaeology and anthropology’ by Thomas Yarrow‚ pp. 13-27

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    about people and their social contexts by a range of methods – draws heavily upon the traditions and practices of disciplines such as anthropology‚ sociology‚ psychology‚ history and creative arts. Anthropology contributes a tradition of participant observation and interviews‚ field note-taking and heuristic interpretation of culture. For example‚ from Geertz we learn the importance of reading the cultural meanings in details of behaviour such as winks‚

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    the health food movement to Geertz and his definition of religion. When thinking about the supposed “premise” of religion‚ I had always believed the vague and obscure definition that religion is a set of beliefs and practices that center around a divine force. Because of my ignorance regarding religion‚ my views were incredulous concerning Dubisch and her claim of connecting the food movement to Geertz’s definition. After delving into the works of Dubisch and Geertz‚ I came to the conclusion that

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    definitions in the book are all correct to some extent and may be missing a few important factors or have overextended the meaning to apply to only some religions and or faiths. In the functional definitions that were defined in the book and by Clifford Geertz‚ I found little error and would like to expand on my opinion on their definitions. The book defined religion‚ if I remember correctly as‚ any person ’s reliance upon a pivotal value was that person finds essential wholeness as an individual and

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    has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society ’s culture‚ consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242). The rituals‚ customs‚ ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event‚ one must evaluate the attributes that a culture has.

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    Comm Theory Review Questions Elaboration Likelihood Model Owner: Richard Petty & John Cacioppo 1. Identify and explain the two mental routes to attitude change. Are these routes mutually exclusive? What separates the twin poles on the cognitive continuum? Central Route: Message elaboration; the path of cognitive processing that involves scrutiny of message content. Peripheral Route: No message elaboration; a mental shortcut process that accepts or rejects a message based on irrelevant

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