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# Can cultures and cultural practices be critically evaluated? Against what criteria or standard? | # Can cultures and cultural practices be critically evaluated? Against what criteria or standard? | ||
# What resources do we find in the history of anthropology for understanding culture? | # What resources do we find in the history of anthropology for understanding culture? | ||
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| − | + | # How did Antonio Gramsci understand the relationship between intellectual and political culture in Italy? | |
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# What is consumer culture? How can it be critqued? | # What is consumer culture? How can it be critqued? | ||
# How do specific cultural domains, such as religion, morality, and art function? | # 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? | # How did the Italian neorealists approach and critique Italian culture of the mid-twentieth century? | ||
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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 and 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? Against what criteria or standard?
- What resources do we find in the history of anthropology for understanding culture?
- How various anthropological and psychological theories comprehend culture?
- How did Antonio Gramsci understand the relationship between intellectual and political culture in Italy?
- 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?
