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# What is culture and where does it come from? | # 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? | + | # 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? | # 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? | + | # 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? | ||
# How do Marx and Freud understand culture? | # How do Marx and Freud understand culture? | ||
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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 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?
