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- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/05%3A_Culture_as_Thought_and_Action/5.02%3A_Beliefs
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/08%3A_Roots_of_American_National_CultureThis chapter is a crash course in American history from the perspective of social history and cultural geography. If you can grasp the argument of this chapter, you might begin to see American culture...This chapter is a crash course in American history from the perspective of social history and cultural geography. If you can grasp the argument of this chapter, you might begin to see American culture in a completely new light. Name from memory as many as you can of the American beliefs and values discussed at the beginning of the chapter. How was the understanding of “freedom” different in each of those colonies? From where did the founders of the Deep South come?
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/03%3A_Origins_of_Culture/3.08%3A_Similarities_among_creation_stories
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/03%3A_Origins_of_Culture/3.06%3A_Origins_of_mythology
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/08%3A_Roots_of_American_National_Culture/8.05%3A_Spanish_influenceThe descendants of the first Spanish settlers in the Southwest (many of whom intermarried with the indigenous peoples) thought of this region as el Norte (the north), and while Spanish influence on th...The descendants of the first Spanish settlers in the Southwest (many of whom intermarried with the indigenous peoples) thought of this region as el Norte (the north), and while Spanish influence on the West would eventually be eclipsed by English folkways, Spanish influences persist to this day.
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/03%3A_Origins_of_Culture/3.01%3A_Culture_as_a_product_of_human_activity
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/04%3A_Material_Culture/4.01%3A_The_things_we_make
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/07%3A_Group_Membership_and_IdentityThe following questions and tasks will get you started on the road to understanding the issues. Why do many scholars now think it is incorrect to define ethnicity in terms of shared culture? If race i...The following questions and tasks will get you started on the road to understanding the issues. Why do many scholars now think it is incorrect to define ethnicity in terms of shared culture? If race is not biological category, and it is not a cultural category, what is it? How does Appiah prove that racial identification is not necessarily a cultural affair? What is the difference between a country, a nation, and a nation-state? How is a nation like an ethnic group, and how is it different?
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/05%3A_Culture_as_Thought_and_Action/5.07%3A_Final_reflection
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/05%3A_Culture_as_Thought_and_Action/5.03%3A_Values
- https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropology/Speaking_of_Culture_(Weil)/06%3A_Beliefs%2C_Values%2C_and_Cultural_Universals/6.04%3A_Final_reflectionMcSweeney (2002: 110), echoing the sentiments of many other scholars insists that, “the prefixing of the name of a country to something to imply national uniformity is grossly over-used.” In his view,...McSweeney (2002: 110), echoing the sentiments of many other scholars insists that, “the prefixing of the name of a country to something to imply national uniformity is grossly over-used.” In his view, Hofstede’s dimensions are little more than statistical myths. In the chapters to come, we will suggest that culture is a term better applied to small collectivities and explain why the idea that there is any such thing as national culture may be a mere illusion.
