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What are the Humanities?
“The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to study aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline.”
National Endowment for the Humanities
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“ What is it to be human?”
Hominid: any of a family of bipedal primate mammals, including modern humans and ancestors. The earliest is Australopithecus.
Ca. 5 million – 30,000 BCE
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WHO ARE WE?
The humanities reveal how people
have tried to make spiritual, moral,
and intellectual sense of a world.
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What is CULTURE?The shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of a society use to cope with their world and with one another. These are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.
Based on offerings of Bates & Plog
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CULTURE: The artistic and intellectual expressions of a people Bailey
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How did the past develop?
Are we impacted today by the past?
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The humanities offer clues The humanities offer clues
to these questions but never a to these questions but never a complete answer!complete answer!
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As humans we crave meaning in our lives, and we communicate
these cravings through our
expressive behaviorexpressive behavior..
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Visual Images
Words
Music
Dance
Performance
Ritual/Religion
Expressive Behavior
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ARTS - Important Cultural Documents
Art reflects
culture!
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THE HIGHEST POINTS OF CIVILIZATION
HAVE PRODUCED
THE GREATEST WORKS OF ART!
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The pyramids of ancient Egypt attest the magnificence
of pharonic rule.
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Ancient Greece producedthe Parthenon.
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Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals sprang up during the Middle Ages.
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Renaissance men like Michelangelo produced art like the DAVID.
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Prehistoric man Prehistoric man created asceticallycreated asceticallypleasing paintingspleasing paintingson cave walls.on cave walls.
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How do we know about our past?
Primary Sources
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Primary Sources
Artifacts - a man-made object that has some kind of cultural significance
Epigraphy – “writing
on things” - The study of ancient text in their original context
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What have others said about certain cultures?
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Literature
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Dance
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MUSIC
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Performance
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Religion & Ritual
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How do cultural differences shape our expressions?
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*Norms *Customs*Taboos * Laws
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Norms: agreed upon expectations and rules by which a culture guides the behavior of its members
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Customs: standards of behavior that are approved but not morally significant
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How we bury our dead?
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Windover Excavations: 7,000-year-old Pond Cemetery
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Taboo: Behavior absolutely forbidden by a culture
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SEXUAL
BEHAV IOR
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KILLING!
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Taboos often become laws.
Laws: a formal body of rules enacted by the state
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Our approach to the study of humanities …
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Geography
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Government
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Economics & Commerce
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Religion & Ritual
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Arts
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Cicero, 1st Century
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“Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day.”
Goethe, 19th Century AD
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““In times like these, it helps to recall In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times that there have always been times like these.” like these.”
Paul HarveyPaul Harvey
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Study smartly and enjoy the class!