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WRA 150: Evolution of American thought

WRA 150: Evolution of American thought. THURSDAY , SEPT. 12, 2013. AGENDA. Housekeeping What is culture W hat is an artifact Introduce Project 2 What’s next. WHAT IS CULTURE?. Take a few minutes to come up with your own definition of culture

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WRA 150: Evolution of American thought

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  1. WRA 150: Evolution of American thought THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 2013

  2. AGENDA • Housekeeping • What is culture • What is an artifact • Introduce Project 2 • What’s next

  3. WHAT IS CULTURE? • Take a few minutes to come up with your own definition of culture • Once you’re done, share your conclusions with the people around you • What did you guys find?

  4. CULTURE • Is culture a question of content? • Objects, tools, holidays, films, literature, food, etc • Or, is it a set of values, attitudes, and behaviors? • The way people act, what they say, how they interact • Culture as a noun and a verb?

  5. CULTURE, DEFINED • “Culture is an integrated system of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of any given society. Culture refers to the total way of life of particular groups of people. It includes everything that a group of people thinks, says, does and makes—its systems of attitudes and feelings. Culture is learned and transmitted from generation to generation.” (Kohls 1996)

  6. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

  7. WHAT ABOUT?

  8. WHAT ELSE? • What other things do you associate with culture?

  9. WHAT IS AN ARTIFACT? • Again, come up with a definition of artifact and share with the class • “An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.”

  10. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

  11. MORE LIKE…

  12. WHAT ABOUT…

  13. ARTIFACTS CONT’D • As you can see, artifacts don’t necessarily need to be tangible, tactile objects. They can be concepts, practices and represenations.

  14. PROJECT 2 CULTURAL ARTIFACT ANALYSIS PAPER

  15. PROJECT 2 • You will chose an everyday thing—an object, text, or product—and consider what it reveals about larger cultural values and practices. Unlike other research papers you may have written in which you begin by taking a position and then and looking for evidence to support your position, you’ll begin by carefully observing something, asking questions about its uses, meaning, and value, and then working your way to a conclusion about the artifact’s significance for understanding something about cultural meanings, practices or values.

  16. KEEP IN MIND • For your first paper, you were the expert. Now moving into project 2, you will have to take a more objective stance • Outside research • But, you will still need to build your ethos, and I encourage you to investigate a culture that you are already a part of • Try and think outside the box, but be sure that there is enough information out there to have evidence to back up your claims

  17. FOR NEXT CLASS • Read • “Body Rituals of the Nacirema” (on course website) • Start thinking about the culture(s) you belong to and the artifacts that belong to that culture

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