Names from Cultural Studies
Who introduced Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
To what language group belongs the Kazakh language?
Turkic group of languages
What is animism?
religious belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Why Sapir-Wharf hypothesis is considered as hypothesis?
Their arguments have not been proven yet
A culture that is concerned with the external, mechanical and utilitarian object.
Material culture
He is a Russian-language poet, Turkologist, politician, and anti-nuclear activist who wrote about Turkic influence on The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (Slovo o Polku Igoreve).
Olzhas Suleimenov
Non-material achievements of nomads
cave drawing, petroglyphs, ancient sculpture, religious beliefs (polytheism, Tengrism), ritual dances, burial ritual...
What are fetishism and totemism?
religious beliefs:
1) religious worship of inanimate material objects
2) system of belief in which humans are said to have kinship or a mystical relationship with a spirit-being
What can you tell about symbolic view of culture?
Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner regarded culture as the system of signs which are created by human activity and which need practices and context.
What is morality?
Set of personal or social standards for good or bad behavior and character
Who did introduce the term ‘animism’?
Edward Taylor
The type of the ancient Turkic writings that used in Central Asia in the 8th-10th c. called...
Orkhon-Yenisei script
In Cultural Studies signs, forms, symbols, texts that allow people to enter into communication with each other called...
the language of culture
What is semantics in semiotics according to Charles Morris?
the affiliations between the world of signs and the world of things
What are animism, fetishism, totemism?
religious beliefs: 1) belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
2) religious worship of inanimate material objects
3) system of belief in which humans are said to have kinship or a mystical relationship with a spirit-being
The Swiss researcher who developed the theory of signs and symbols, and how this study called?
Ferdinand de Saussure, semiotics
Material achievements of nomadic Saka tribes.
chariots, weapons, metallic industry, jewelry animal style, yurt (tent), pants, Golden Man, domestication of horses;
a concept introduced by Richard Dawkens and stands for a popular, repeatable, transferable cultural unit that is similar to human genes.
What is hard and soft version of Sapir-Wharf hypothesis?
Hard - 1. Language definitely determines the thoughts.
Soft - 2. Language influences on some aspects of behavior and perceptions of the world.
What is counterculture? Give Examples
a way of life and a set of ideas that are completely different from those accepted by most of society, or the group of people who live this way.
the hippie movement of the 1960s, the green movement, polygamists, and feminist groups.
Who did introduce the term 'Culture studies', when and where (work)?
An American anthropologist Leslie A.White in 1949 in his work "The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization"
Who is Anakharsis and what do you know about him?
a Scythian thinker, philosopher; he was a member of Ariopagus; he was from a royal family; he was a politician and knew personally Salon, Ancient Greek ruler, he took part in Olympic Games; he is known for his quotations.
What is cultural code? And who first used this concept?
Culture code is a key method developed by Clotaire Rapaille to understanding the type of culture, unique cultural features encoded in some form of information to identify the culture.
Ferdinand de Saussure analysed semiotics through language, whereas semiotics of Charles Pierce focused on …
...cognitive aspects of semiotics (how people interpret signs and this process is called semiosis, so when a person tries to understand a sign people rely on multiple inferences and finally can reveal the full meaning of object).
What is paradox? Examples of paradox in morality?
Contradictory statements, thoughts, meanings against the established norms; e.g. war, abortion, murder, lie, etc.