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Exnomination and Culture LLC 5160 For details of the license under which you may use this work, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ 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.
