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Exnomination and Culture

Exnomination and Culture. LLC 5160. For details of the license under which you may use this work, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/. What is culture? (And who has it?). Facets of Culture. Values Norms Institutions Artifacts. French philosopher(1915-1980)

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Exnomination and Culture

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  1. Exnomination and Culture • LLC 5160 For details of the license under which you may use this work, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

  2. What is culture?(And who has it?)

  3. Facets of Culture • Values • Norms • Institutions • Artifacts

  4. French philosopher(1915-1980) Identified process of exnomination Explained why dominant groups feel they have “no culture” Roland Barthes

  5. Exnomination "If you are a member of a dominant group, your attributes are invisible. Your role in making things the way they are is not noticeable. You believe your culture is apolitical and non-ideological. Your rules become the rules…"

  6. Some students experience school like this.. School Culture Home Culture

  7. Other students like this.. Home School

  8. Francis L. K. Hsu • Chinese American professor of anthropology (1909-1999) • Anthropologists should seek understanding of their own culture prior to studying that of others

  9. Discuss Hsu’s “A Blueprint for US Culture”

  10. Postulate 10? • Monolingualism is the norm. • Bilingualism is a temporary state on the way to becoming American.

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