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Associated with Clifford Geertz, this term describes the view that culture is lived experience integrated into a coherent, public system of symbols that renders the world intelligible.
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The uncertainty within anthropology about the means of describing social reality.
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The theory that focuses on the contingent nature of culture by analyzing how ethnographic subjects utilize language and patterned activity to create, sustain, and change meaning.
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Patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovations, and transmission over time and space.
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A phenomenon which expresses that the structure of a language affects the way the speakers understand their world.
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The view that social solidarity is a function of the systems of symbolic logic that connect people.
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A keen want to deconstruct the structuralistic thoughts of those like Levi-Strauss, expressing disenchantment with static, mechanistic, and controlling models of culture.
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A methodology characteristic of postmodernism that uses textual analysis to understand hidden political and cultural contexts.
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Utilized by Geertz; the process of interpreting culture as text.
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Critiqued as a Western, Enlightenment-inspired project, this describes the intellectual stance that experience is subjective and no one version of it can be authoritative.
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The notion that one views concepts and ideas from the perspective of the culture that they are a part of.
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Advocated by many postmodernists; the notion that there exists multiple, legitimate versions of reality or truths as seen from different perspectives.
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The elementary principle of exchanging gifts; according to Claude Levi-Strauss, the elementary principle of exchanging women.
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Bourdieu's term explaining that these symbolic representations make the world what it is for the individuals who live in it.
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Interpretation of actions, ideas, and material activities.
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Earliest theorist to adapt Max Weber's thoughts on anthropology.
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Selfless behaviors, or self-sacrificing behaviors.
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An analytical strategy popular among postmodernists; it involves self-reflection on the biases and assumptions that inform one's own theories and perspectives.
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Term used by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the capacity of individuals to innovate cultural forms, based on their personal histories and positions within the community.
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A prescribed behavior that is periodically repeated and links the actions of the individual or group to a metaphysical order of existence.
