ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

1. ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
INTANGIBLE
CULTURAL
HERITAGE
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

2. SHARON SHERANI DANIEL
BARCH II YR IV SEM
TEAM : ANTHROPOLOGY
DR. MGR EDUCATIONAL AND
RESEARCH INSTITUTE

3. Culture or civilization, taken in it's board,
ethnographic sense, is that complex
whole which includes knowledge, belief,
art, morals, law, custom and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by man
as a member of society.
SIR EDWARD TYLOR

4. ANTHROPOLOGY
Scientific study of humans, human
behavior and societies in the past and
present
anthropology includes norms and values
from greek word
'anthropogia'~human
'logos'~study

5. Architectural Anthropology
To understand how architecture influence
people, how it makes people, how it
shapes them and how it sustains social
relations between people

6. ANTHROPOLOGY
PHYSICAL
biological and behavioral aspects ohf
human beings
LINGUISTICS
Interdisciplinary study of language
and its influence on social life
CULTURAL
cultural variation of humans
ARCHEOLOGY
study through recovery and analysis
of material culture

7. INFLUENCE
OF ANTHROPOLOGY
It explores human evolution, reconstruct
society, reconstruct civilizations of past
and analyze the cultures and languages
of modern people

8. ANTHROPOLOGY
Social relationship
Interaction
Interdependancy
social reality
ARCHITECTURE
Spatial connections
Main, secondary, auxillary function
spatial integration
visual integration

9. CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
Related to philosophy, literarture and arts ( how
culture affects the experience of a self or group ~
knowledge, customs and institutions
key topics of the field ~ art, media, music, dance and
film

10. INTANGIBLE CULTURAL
HERITAGE
Practice, representation, expression, knowledge, skill
(which cannot be physically touched) by UNESCO to be a
places' cultural heritage

11. Comprises of folklore, customs,
beliefs, traditions, knowledge and
language in contrast to tangible
heritage
Tangible heritage ie. physical
objects and articrafts belonging to
culture.
promoting cultural diversity and
human creativity
includes Oral history, food heritage,
dance heritage, media heritage, etc.

12. LETS LEARN
FEW TERMS:
CASTE
Each of the hereditary classes of hindu
society, distinguished by relative degrees of
ritual purity or pollution and of social status
social class- system of dividing society
Any class or group of people who inherit
exclusive privilage or are percieved as
socially distinct
Eg. Iyer, Paraiyar, Nadar, Vanniyar, Vellar,
Reddy etc.

13. CUSTOMS:
Repitition of same behaviour, habitual practice,
method of doing or living
BEHAVIOUR:
Human conduct relative to social norms
according to behave or act
HABIT:
Action performed repeatedly and automatically
without awareness on regular basis
BELIEF:
Mental acceptance of a claim, faith or trust in
the reality of something based on reasoning,
evidence

14. MYTHOLOGY:
Collection of myths of people, their origin,
history, diety, ancestors and heros
FOLK:
Inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition or
history
FOLKLORE:
The tales, legend and superstition of particular
ethnic population
MYTHS:
Traditional story which the people believe
About natural forces, personified soul, and other sacred
narratives

15. LITTLE
TRADITIONS
Robert Redfield-
Mexican studies
Formal illerate tradition of rural people
living within a civilization at the level of folk
society which is known
A type of interaction reflected in villages
based on caste
Little and great traditions help to analyse
social change in rural India. The nature of
this change is basically cultural. There is a
constant interaction between great
tradition and little tradition. The interaction
between the two traditions brings about
change in rural society.

16. Forestry Congress,
2003
SACRED
GROOVES
SPIRITUAL, SOCIOCULTURAL AND
ECOLOGICAL STATUS OF SACRED
GROOVES
Ancient tradition - Nature worship, trees
were very sacred and considered to be
Abode of Gods
They have residing deity and folklore
associated with are taboos, rituals, local
beliefs, mystic folk tales etc,.
Eg. Banyan, Peepal, Neem, Tamarind
These trees are dedicated to Village Gods or
spirits, snake gods, shaivaites or vaishnavites
The trees are indentified with colored
clothes around. Any disease, epidemic or
agriculture failure are believed to related to
it

17. SACRED
GROOVES
Forestry Congress,
2003
MANAGEMENT AND CUSTODY
The head family of the village, or the chief temple
or the dominating community
THREATS
Young generation consider the above to be
superstition
Invation of exotic weeds
Mining
Dead wood collection and bio mass gathering
CULTURE
Several fests and Community cooking takes place
in accordance to the tree.
The tree also accounts to several medicinal values.
It is a form of Conservation of Bio diversity

18. ORAL
HISTORY
INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
FOR
KOVILUR
RESIDENTS
INTRODUCTION
FAMILY HISTORY
LIFETIME CHANGES
FAMILY LIFE
CAREER
RELIGION
CUSTOM
BELIEF
SUPERSTITION
PERSONAL
FINANCIAL STATUS
WEALTH AND PROPERTY

19. ORAL HISTORY
COLLECTION AND STUDY
Of families, individuals, important events or
everyday life using audio, video tapes or
interviews
Oral History collects memories and personal
commentaries of historical significance through
recorded interviews. An oral history interview
generally consists of a well-prepared interviewer
questioning an interviewee and recording

20. EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
How old are you now?
When were you born?Where were you born?
Where was your mother born?
Do you know where your mother's mother (your grandmother on your
mother's side) was born?
How about your mother's father? Where was your grandfather (on your
mother's side) born?
What village did your mother's ancestors come from?
What part of the village did your mother's ancestors come from?
Where was your father born?Do you know where your father's mother
(your grandmother on your father's side) was born?
What about your father's father (your grandfather on your father's side)?
Do you know where he was born or where he came from?
Do you remember hearing any stories about why your ancestors --
either on your father's or mother's side of the family ?

21. SOURCE
Science Direct,Procedia Economics,vol 39 2016
Handwerker, W. Penn, 2002 "The Construct
Validity of Cultures: Cultural Diversity, Culture
Theory, and a Method for Ethnography".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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