unit 3 anthro

Question 1

karl marx

Answer 1

opposed the imperial version of anthropology
- he proposed communism in order to solve the problem brought by the capitalism and proletariat

Question 2

emile durkheim

Answer 2

saw modern society as a form of alienation of the individual
- for him trad societies have collective awareness and weak self-identity while modern Western societies have individual awareness and strong self-identity

Question 3

Claude Levi-Strauss

Answer 3

believed that traditional state was preferable to the modern
- attempting to add newness is not creation but a destruction

Question 4

Dorrine Kondo

Answer 4

raised an important issue for selfhood
- through her subjective knowledge, she was able to objectively identify the cultural differences between being Japanese and American

Question 4

Joseph Campbell

Answer 4

• believes in monomyth
• monomyth was not a call to abandon individuality but an explanation of the interface between the personal individual and the social individual

Question 5

Thomas Csordas

Answer 5

any anthropological study of the self needs to recognise the physical body
- existence of the body is the cause of the existence of the self, and the existence of groups of bodies is the cause of culture

Question 6

western cultures

Answer 6

independent from others

Question 7

rest of the world

Answer 7

interdependent with others