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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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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religious symbols and their meaning (31). He wanted to make sense of cultural systems and also encouraged other social scientists to abide by that task. He believed that symbols guide humans and give us a sense of meaning. Unlike other social scientists‚ Geertz defined religion. The following is his definition of religion: “a system which acts to establish powerful‚ persuasive‚ and long lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order to existence‚ and clothing these conceptions
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(1957)‚ another pioneer in anthropology stated that culture is ’the pattern of life within a community‚ the regularly recurring activities and material and social arrangements characteristic of a particular group ’.[2] Since the seminal work of Clifford Geertz (1973)‚ the older definition of culture as the entire way of life of people‚ including their technology and material artifacts‚ or that as everything one needs to know to become a functioning member of a society‚ has been gradually displaced in
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1. Orientalism Western’ interest and motivation on the “Orient” or Eastern-based cultures regions is an unstated‚ and perhaps unrecognized motivation to exploit the region and in doing so‚ enrich the west. When we look around our daily life‚ no matter you live in which continent‚ there are Iphones‚ Cocacola‚ Nikes‚ Mcdonald’s‚ L’Oreal‚ English expressions or ads. Some might said these are just multinationals and advanced technological goods. They are changing our daily lives and shaping the
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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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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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Ethnography Research Addressing ethnographic inquiry Frances J. Riemer Groping in the dark When I began my first ethnographic research project‚ I wasn’t an ethnographer. I was a teacher and a student‚ living in the city‚ pondering questions about education and social mobility‚ poverty and work. I had enrolled in a doctoral program and taken classes in research methods‚ but I became an ethnographer by doing the things that ethnographers do. I learned how to ask questions by asking
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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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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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