Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Wrap-Up Threads

  • Conceptions (Misconceptions, portrayals, anthropological perspectives)
  • Choice of words, impact of word choice
  • Worldviews
  • Romanticism, Western imagination, noble savage
  • Enlightenment, mechanization, industrial revolution
  • Colonialism
  • Popular culture
  • Groups (Constructs, not bounded)
  • Multiplicity of identities: language, rural/urban, traditional/modern
  • Tribalism (Ambiguity/stereotypes, connotations, nationalism)
  • Kinship
  • Gender roles in social contexts

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