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"THOUGHTS ON CULTURE OVER A CUP OF COFFEE - Do you think culture can be studied in a coffee shop? Have you ever gone to a coffee shop, sat down with a book or laptop, and listened to conversations around you? If you just answered yes, in a way, you were acting as an anthro-pologist. Anthropologists like to become a part of their sur-roundings, observing and participating with people doing day-to-day things." Click on the link below to access the assigned reading.
"We are living in difficult times, facing out of control, escalating wars in the Middle East for which we are partially to blame and destructive political wars at home. We are a divided nation within a pro-foundly divided world despite globalization and its allegedly democratizing effects. The gap between North and South, Middle East and Mid-West, between haves and have-nots has become a chasm making all of us less free and less safe." Click on the link below to access the assigned reading.
"Most cultures exhibit a particular configuration or style. A single value or pattern of perceiving the world often leaves its stamp on several institutions in the society. Examples are "machismo" in Spanish-influenced cultures, "face" in Japanese culture, and "pollution by females" in some highland New Guinea cultures. Here Horace Miner demonstrates that "attitudes about the body" have a pervasive influence on many institutions in Nacirema society." Click on the link below to access the assigned reading.
"Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree that humans dominate planet Earth; we've spread to every continent, and our actions determine the fate of other animals (and possibly Earth itself). How did we get from there to here? Historian Yuval Noah Harari suggests a surprising reason for the rise of humanity." Click on the link or picture below to access the assigned video.
"Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding." Click on the link or picture below to access the assigned video.
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The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Located at: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story Project: TEDGlobal 2009 License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.5