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Major Course Research Questions
Here is a list of major course research questions. We will edit and refine these questions as we proceed.
- What is culture and where does it come from?
- How is culture related to biology geography? In what ways is it independent of our natural history?
- What are the challenges of seeing a culture from either a position inside of it or outside of it? What skills or techniques are involved in accurately describing cultural phenomenon?
- Can cultures and cultural practices be critically evaluated?
- What resources do we find in the history of anthropology for understanding culture?
- How do Marx and Freud understand culture?
- What was the Italian experience of the culture of fascism?
- How did Antonio Gramsci respond to the culture of fascism and the prospect of revolution in Italian culture?
- What is consumer culture? How can it be critqued?
- How do specific cultural domains, such as religion, morality, and art function?
- How did the Italian neorealists approach and critique Italian culture of the mid-twentieth century?
