Lesson 3: Anthropology

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  • According to Marcel Mauss, every self has two faces: personne and moi
  • Moi refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity, his biological givenness.
  • Moi is a person’s basic identity.
  • Personne is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is
  • Personne has much to do with what it means to live in a particular institution, a particular family, a particular religion, a particular nationality, and how to behave given expectations and influences from others.
  • Marcel Mauss proposed the “Total Social Phenomenon”
  • “Total Social Phenomenon”, tackles that every sector in a community or society should cooperate to have a well-balanced living.
  • Language has something to do with culture
  • Language is a salient part of culture and ultimately, has a tremendous effect in our crafting of the self.
  • Language and culture are intertwined.
  • when learning or teaching a language, it is important that the culture where the language belongs be referenced, because language is very much ingrained in the culture.
  • Clifford Geertz is an American cultural anthropologist who defined culture as “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms using which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.
  • "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man," The Interpretation of Cultures. (1966), is a work of Clifford Geertz
  • culture is “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.
  • Culture reveals the link between what man is capable of and how he actually behaves, which in turn helps define human nature.
  • Culture is the "accumulated totality" of symbolic patterns that appear in different societies.
  • Remaining the same person and turning chameleon by adapting to one’s context seems paradoxical. However, French anthropologist Marcel Mauss has an explanation for this phenomenon.