Sc2218 Lecture 1 (2008a)
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This document provides an introduction to an anthropology course titled "Anthropology and the Human Condition" being taught at the National University of Singapore. It outlines the course materials, assignments, topics to be covered in lectures and tutorials, and information about the course instructor. The key topics covered include definitions of anthropology and its relationship to other disciplines; the ethnographic and holistic approaches of anthropological study; and assignments including tutorial exercises, a course wiki, and an "Eropagnis project" involving a fictional ethnography.
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The document discusses the concepts of community, ethnicity, race, and nation from an anthropological perspective. It explains how early anthropology viewed "community" as a taken-for-granted concept but now anthropologists study how communities are formed and imagined. Communities are imagined and defined by shared beliefs and identities rather than physical co-location. Race, ethnicity, and nationality are also socially constructed concepts with shifting and arbitrary definitions over time. Census categories in Singapore from 1871 to 2000 demonstrate how racial and ethnic classifications have changed.
Sc2218 lecture 8 (2011)
The document discusses the cultural aspects of economics and exchange. It examines how value is created through branding and consumption in modern capitalist societies. Commodification of human relationships through money and commodity fetishism is also analyzed, where social relationships become abstracted and mediated by monetary exchange rather than direct interaction. Finally, the cultural differences between patron-client networks and bureaucratic rational systems of organizing social relationships are compared.
Sc2218 lecture 7 (2011)
The document discusses the concept of economics and exchange from an anthropological perspective. It provides examples of exchange systems from different cultures around the world, including the Hxaro exchange of the Ju/'hoansi people, Potlatch ceremonies of Native North Americans, and the Kula ring of Trobriand Islanders. These examples show that economic systems are cultural phenomena that serve social and relationship purposes beyond just meeting basic needs. The document also examines the cultural aspects of economics through a case study of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Sc2218 lecture 6 (2011)
This document provides an overview and summary of key concepts from a lecture on gender and sexuality in anthropology. It defines and distinguishes among sex, gender, and sexuality. It discusses how gender is a social and cultural elaboration of biological sex. Examples of gender systems like marriage, inheritance, and residence patterns are presented to show how they vary across cultures. The influence of sexual bonding and reproduction on the development of gender is also discussed.
Sc2218 lecture 5 (2011)
The document discusses the concept of kinship in anthropology. It defines kinship as the social and cultural interpretations of biological reproduction, including concepts like marriage and paternity. Kinship is a primary organizing principle in most societies. The document then discusses kinship structures among the Ju/'hoansi people and how kinship becomes less complex and important an organizing factor in industrial societies, with new institutions taking kinship's place. It ends by discussing new horizons for kinship with technological developments like surrogacy and sperm donation.
Sc2218 lecture 4 (2011)
This document provides an outline and summary of a lecture on culture and the human condition. It discusses definitions of culture, how human cultures have evolved significantly in the past 50,000 years through processes like the agricultural and industrial revolutions. It also distinguishes between culture as systems of meaning and society as systems of interaction and exchange. Specific examples are provided to illustrate how urban systems and nation-states arise from social and cultural dynamics.
Sc2218 lecture 3 (2011)
1. The document discusses the concept of human diversity and challenges the idea that diversity can be explained by biological races. It argues that race is a social construct not supported by genetic evidence.
2. All humans share a common ancestry in Africa within the last 200,000 years. While biological traits have diversified slightly over time, this diversity is minor and primarily driven by genetic drift rather than natural selection.
3. Cultural evolution, not biological evolution, has been the main driver of increasing human diversity in the last 50,000 years as modern humans spread across the globe.
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