Transcript Exnomination_and_Culture

Exnomination
and Culture
LLC 5160
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What is culture?
(And who has it?)
Facets of Culture
• Values
• Norms
• Institutions
• Artifacts
Roland Barthes
•French
philosopher(19151980)
•Identified process
of exnomination
•Explained why
dominant groups
feel they have “no
culture”
Exnomination
"If you are a member of a dominant
group, your attributes are invisible. Your
role in making things the way they are is
not noticeable. You believe your culture is
apolitical and non-ideological. Your rules
become the rules…"
Some
students
experience
school like
this..
School Culture
Home Culture
Other students like this..
Home
School
Francis L. K.
Hsu
•Chinese American professor
of anthropology (1909-1999)
•Anthropologists should seek
understanding of their own
culture prior to studying that
of others
Discuss Hsu’s
“A Blueprint for US
Culture”
Postulate 10?
• Monolingualism is the norm.
• Bilingualism is a temporary state on the
way to becoming American.