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The social and cultural anthropology syllabus is closely linked to this, striving to develop internationally minded people who recognize their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, and who help create a better and more peaceful world. DP social and cultural anthropology facilitates the development of
Social and cultural anthropology is the comparative study of culture and human societies. Anthropologists seek an understanding of humankind in all its diversity.
This course examines how a variety of cultural traditions propose answers to the question of how to live a meaningful life. It considers the meaning of life, not as a philosophical abstraction, but as a question that individuals grapple with in their daily lives, facing difficult decisions between meeting and defying ….
Pierre Bourdieu thought that education should enable people to change their class position, called social mobility. He discovered that instead it contributes towards social reproduction. What is social reproduction?
Introducing Sociocultural Anthropology Lecture 1: Cultural Meaning, Social Structure, and Knowledge Production 1. What is anthropology a. Eric Wolf: scientific humanity/ humanistic science b. holistic condition: past, present, future; biology, society, language, and culture i. studies the whole of the human condition c. subfields: biological, ...
Objects, resources and belongings have cultural meaning, described by Arjun Appadurai as "the social life of things" (Appadurai 1986). They embedded in all kinds of social relations and practices. Some anthropologists seek to understand human experience through the study of material objects including those we use to transform our bodies.
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