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Familiar To Strange Project

The last question of the Strange to Familiar project was, “How will this experience help you see something from your everyday, familiar life in a different way?”  

That last question is where this next project begins. Now that you have had a “strange” experience, hopefully it got you thinking about how your own life, even the most mundane aspect of it, is actually quite strange if you look at it from outside its cultural context. Remember, the whole point of this course is to get you to begin to consider the possibility that EVERYTHING that you do and every material thing around you, even things that you consider to be “natural,” are fabrications built by the cultures you inhabit. This project will require you to step outside your culture (impossible, but try) and see a mundane object as a crystallization of your culture. Choose an object and figure out how it is a physical manifestation of something that is important to “your culture” (or one of the many cultures of which you form a part).

Anthropology is the science of writing the strange into the familiar and the art of seeing the familiar as strange. For example, watch this 4-minute mini-lecture: