Linguistic Aspects of Culture 1. How does culture hang together as system? How does it work? How does it interact with aspects of life that aren't culture? a. There has been a lot of efforts in the 20century to answer these question
The culture concept is fundamental to anthropology Years ago, we used to have more trouble introducing the concept, because people tended to think of the other meaning of culture, i.e., high culture, esp. art, music, refinement
1. History and Anthropology a. Hutchinson emphasizes that her ethnography tries to encompass the history of the Nuer people b. Evans-Pritchard (Ep)on the other hand, tries only to capture the nuer at one moment in time