Tag: anthropology
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Meet the Natives (Sociology on T.V.)
Meet the Natives involves five people from a tropical island visiting a ‘strange land called England’, where they find many of the customs unusual. At various points throughout the video the ‘natives’ from Oceania have problems understanding British dinner rituals, the food we eat, housework/ the amount of stuff we have and even the concept […]
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Stuff by Daniel Miller – A Summary
A summary of Stuff by the anthropologist Daniel Miller The premise of this book is that things make people as much as people make things. Following Bordieu, Miller argues that individuals learn to become members of society, not through formal education, but because they are inculcated into the general habits and dispositions of that society […]
