conducted on Javanese culture (an Indonesian island). This definition asserts that religion is a cultural construction, at least from the anthropological point of view. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. abstracted entities into unified patterns.� (17) Therefore, coherence cannot be In Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The authoritative nature of the symbols is manifested the most in the symbolic system of religion. around which it is organized, the underlying structures of which it is a Personally, I feel that meanings behind an action are Treats symbol system as simulatable. Without men, no culture, certainly; but equally, and more significantly, without culture, no men.” (p. 49) The anthropological take on cognition: Overt, public thought vs internal thought. An anthropological riddle: We wish to understand that culture which is untainted by Western influence, but we cannot understand or communicate with said culture without some influence that we might know their language and communicate with them. �interpretive anthropologist� (who accepts a semiotic view of culture) with the characterize the whole system in some general way�according to the core symbols Culture is “the ordered system of meaning and of symbols” and social system is “the pattern of social interaction” (144). Clifford No true universal generalizations are possible. Clifford (p. 97) The role of religion in social support: Stabilizes a metaphysical anxiety or confusion. �Tightness� is irrelevant for the most Understanding (p. 100) Religion and suffering: Religion does not teach how to avoid suffering, but how to suffer. or actions of persons from a foreign culture, we are acknowledging our �lack of Functional theory treats sociological and cultural practices as equivalent, and does not account for how one can change the other. appreciates that we have no choice but to sift through relevant meanings, What people in fact behave�, 7. (p. 169), On ideology: Geertz poses Mannheim’s paradox: Cannot have a non-evaluative study of ideology. Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has "a way of thinking, feeling, and believing", 5. From to converse with subjects in foreign cultures, gain access to their conceptual Interest theory sees ideology as Machiavellian in nature , strain theory sees things as a stress minimization problem (p. 202). elaborate venture in.� Using the action of �winking,� Geertz examines is public because �meaning is,� and systems of meanings are what produce uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the
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