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Week 2: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural AnthropologyDefinitions for:Richard Handler and Jocelyn Linnekin, Tradition, Genuine or Spurious?Barre Toelken, Folklore and Cultural Worldview |
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tradition |
symbolically creating meaning in the present by using materials from the past |
reification |
the mental process of thinking of something immaterial and non-organic in material, physical terms, |
popular tradition |
reified "things" that are passed on from generation to generation |
analytical tradition |
a symbolic representation using materials from the past to make sense of experience, behavior, human relationships, and artifacts in the present |
twin laws of folklore |
the principle that all cultural products and processes inhere within them in some measure aspects of conservatism, or stability, and dynamism, or change; this law fully applies to the concept of tradition |
active bearers of tradition |
people within a community who actively perform a traditional behavior, or remember the traditional elements and actively pass them on |
passive bearers of tradition |
people within a community who know the traditional behavior or expressions but donot actively perform them or pass them on; rather, they reinforce the active bearers by participating in the traditional behavior as the audience for the performance |
worldview |
a way of viewing the world; or a general way of referring to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it |
cultural relativism |
the thesis that one must suspend judgement on other peoples' practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms [Haviland, p. 51] |
folk ideas |
the basic cognitive building blocks of worldview; cultural rules |
proxemics |
the idea, significantly developed by Edward Hall, that people and place have a mutually affecting relationship |
