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 favor
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Cultural Clash This book focuses on the “clash” of cultures that occurs between the Lee family‚ immigrants to the US from Laos‚ and the doctors that treat their daughter‚ Lia‚ who has been diagnosed with epilepsy. Lia’s parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believe that Lia has fallen ill because she has “lost her soul”. This clash of ideas highlights one of the problems that the Lee’s faced when dealing with the medical community in the US – the Lee’s believed
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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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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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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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Museums as rituals Scott Cunningham‚ a writer‚ once said‚ “Rituals developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world” (Ascension Gateway). This thought provoking quote could be used to spark the thinking of how rituals are practiced in our daily secular lives. Carol Duncan does a great job with showing how rituals are practiced in our secular lives; she uses museums to emphasize this point. Carol Duncan’s Civilizing Rituals: Inside
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Out One’s New Sword Reason and Responsibility. Ed. Joel Feinberg & Russ Shafer-Landau. 12th ed. Thomson Wadsworth. 2005. Print. Fluehr-Lobban‚ Carolyn Anthropologists‚ Cultural Relativism‚ and Universal Rights The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1995 Geertz‚ C.‚ 1984‚ Distinguished Lecture: Anti Anti-Relativism. American Anthropologist 86:263-78. Blackford‚ Russell Book review: Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape Journal of Evolution and Technology. Vol. 21. 53-62. Print. Journal of Anthropological Research
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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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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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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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