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    This document discusses why and how culture should be studied. It notes that culture refers to "what humans do when acting as humans" and that fieldwork involves becoming immersed in another culture and acting as its members do. Relativism is described as acting like a human as learned through one's own culture. The document emphasizes that social roles and interpretations of behavior are learned and that ethnography aims to build understanding between cultures.

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    This document discusses why and how culture should be studied. It notes that culture refers to "what humans do when acting as humans" and that fieldwork involves becoming immersed in another culture and acting as its members do. Relativism is described as acting like a human as learned through one's own culture. The document emphasizes that social roles and interpretations of behavior are learned and that ethnography aims to build understanding between cultures.

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    Culture: How/Why Study?

    ● “What humans do when acting as humans”


    ○ Ethnocentrism
    ○ Fieldwork
    ○ Relativism
    ○ Ethnography
    ● Fieldwork: become as if in another culture, act as they do.
    ● Social role: learned behavior and interpretation
    ○ How to “human” or “student”
    ● Relativism: act like a human, learned by the culture.

    Social role

    Learn how to do/interpret


    observation

    relativism

    Cult or from? Bridge between


    classroom? cultures

    “H”
    ●
    ○ Imitation
    ○ Stories
    ○ Practice
    ○ Myths
    ○ Doing
    ○ Rules
    ● “Society” = Imaginary
    ● Ethnography = a genre of writing

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