Title: Anthropology of Everydayness Cultural Theory and Social Practice Presentation of Dr. Lolita Nikolova complimented by a talk of Danielle Lin and poster-exhibit of students from SLCC and UU March 11, 2005, Stewart Bldg, Room 214, 1:00 PM
1Anthropology of EverydaynessCultural Theory and
Social PracticePresentation of Dr. Lolita
Nikolova complimented by a talk of Danielle Lin
and poster-exhibit of students from SLCC and
UUMarch 11, 2005, Stewart Bldg, Room 214, 100
PM
ANTHRO CLUB, Department of Anthropology,
University of Utah, and Humanities Department,
Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2The Theory of Everydayness and Education
- The poster-exhibit of students from SLCC and UU
- Why do we need traditions?
3Anthropology of everydayness and prehistoric
research
- The meaning of the settlement burials in the
Neolithic - The emergence of the earliest cemeteries in
Anatolia and in the Balkans. - The role of the signs in the Vinca culture in the
Balkans
4Tradition and Everydayness
- Tradition and everydayness
- Tradition and events
- Everydayness vs. event
- The traditions connect generations, stabilize us
socially and psychologically and they are one of
the best cultural tools for personal satisfaction
5The Theory of the Everydayness and the Hot Topics
of the Contemporary Anthropology
- What is the specific of the anthropology as a
science? - How does anthropology of everydayness relate to
the other schools of anthropological research? - Complementary theories and methodologies
- Anthropology of everydayness is not only
anthropography but also attempts to deconstruct
the visible and the invisible elements of the
everydayness in order to characterize the nature
of the culture change and the evolution of the
human society and human interactions.
6- The Anthropology of everydayness is a call for
characterizing culture changes as interrelated
interactions and comparative analysis of the
different hierarchical social subsystems within
the everydayness that in many cases have been
accepted for granted while in fact consist of
hidden characteristics that can be revealed by
research in depth at different hierarchical
levels.
7Structural and functional comparative analysis
- Individual
- Couples
- Microsocial group
- Mezosocial group
- Macrosocial groups
- Super-macrosocial group
8- Everydayness as a cultural theory employs the
principals of deconstructing the everydayness as
a interactive culture system with different
degrees of complexity
9- In the past many of the anthropological problems
of the social groups related to the leading
ideologies in the socialistic and capitalistic
countries. Today we have recognized that the
problems are in the very nature of the democracy,
which is very delicate as a structure and allow
even whole social groups to practice abnormal
internal and/or external behavior within the most
democratic social structures.
10Perspectives of research of the everydayness as
an anthropological problem
- Everydayness and diversity of the culture
- Integration, globalization and individualization
- Power
- Quality
- Morality
- Everydayness, humanities and cultural
reproduction - Children
- Disable people
- Elderly
11- Many people in the world live their lives today
just waiting something to happen tomorrow. And
usually it never happens. So, anthropology of
everydayness is also a philosophy, philosophy to
find the meaning and to enjoy the every moment of
our life and to practice humanity.