cultural dynamics
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pdeed6306Cultural dynamics
External dynamicsInternal dynamics
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Absorbtion or Rejection?
Organic dynamics
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Accomodation or assimilation?
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Midnapore
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Mutus- muteTetrapedes – four leggedHirsutus- hairyLinnaeus, 1748
Java Man (reconstruction)
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Buchenwald: ‘Human’ parts for sale?
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Simple Tools
In conversation withProfessor Volker Sommer, AnthropologyUniversity of London
Chimp tools
Source http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool accessed 30/06/2010
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Humans like wolves Chimps like humans
Amala and Kamala Chimp funeral Uganda 2009
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Quotes
• “The mere inability to understand the expression, movements and rituals of a strange culture creates distrust, suspicion, and fear in a way which can easily lead to overt aggression” (Lorenz, 1975, 149)
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Assimilation to ‘human’ race
• Gk. phylon "race, stock," related to phyle "tribe, clan," and phylein "bring forth“ giving phyletic and phylogenetic
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljVd6XS-J0s&feature=player_detailpage
Oxana Malaya 1996
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Tibet 1949-1979
• 1.2 million killed• 6,254 monasteries and
nunneries destroyed• 60% libraries burned• 2/3 land absorbed into
China• Amdo province turned
into an open prison• 100,000 in labour camps• Entire wildlife wiped out
Mary Craig, Tears of Blood, p.222
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Aztek (16 century)
• 1519 – estimated 25,200,000
• 1532 – estimated 16,800,000
• 1548 – estimated 6,650,000
• 1563 – estimated 2,650,000
• 1605 –estimated 1,075,000
Source : Jucquois who gives Chaunu, Conquête et exploitation des Nouveaux Mondes, Paris: 383
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Armenians- southern Turkey
• Sultan Abdul Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909), massacred up to 300,000 Armenians
• By 1915 – population stood at about 2 million
• 1918 – 1 million• 1923 - almost eliminated
from territory• 1990s destruction of
artefacts and churches
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Dying to be different?
• Enawane-nawe, 2009
• Brazilian government about to dam up the river• Adaptation, association, ideology?
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• “Culture groups behave toward one another in many respects as do different but very closely related animal species” (Lorenz, 1988. The Waning of Humaneness (London: Unwin)
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Adjustment and GrowthMat
ure Encounter
Initiation
Culture
Internal Dynamics
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Effects of Encounter
• Within a culture: – Enculturation
• When cultures meet: – Deculturation
• When cultures meet: – Acculturation
• When educated to live in a plurality of cultures:– Inculturation
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Patterns of encounter
• How can cultural relations be improved?– Assimilation (melting-pot)– Populism (Leave alone) (laissez-faire)
• Salad bowl or mosaic
– Intervene• Mediate?
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Multiculturalism – a layered reality?
• Learned behaviours?– Evolutionary or phylogenetic ( over millenia)– Historical (group history going back over centuries)– Biographical (ontogenetic) – the individual learns by combining
natural development with information– Microgenetic, from moment to moment
Adapted from Tharp (1994) Research Issues and Policy Knowledge in Cultural Diversity and Education www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk1.htm as accessed 13/09/2010
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