ANTHROPOLOGY IS ABOUT YOU & EVERYONE
Taught by Arnold Perey
Aesthetic Realism Foundation • Summer 2012
Class is given from 6:05 - 7:30 PM on Alternate Wednesdays
This crucial principle by Eli Siegel is our basis: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” This is true for people across the map and thousands of years ago as well as ourselves here and now.
The Aesthetic Method Says, "Anthropology Is Like Art!"
May 16 Economics, the Primitive, & Justice
What stands for the human self at its deepest and truest in economics--and what opposes this?
The earth should be owned by all people. History -- from Aboriginal hunter to commodity trader -- shows this.
May 30 Love, or Good Will in Tribal Africa & Your Own Living Room
June 13 Good & Bad Power in Politics Began Early
The fight between good and bad power, as opposing forces, in the tribe, family, community, nation, and even chimpanzee horde.
June 27 Folk Stories -- or, the Opposites & Your Deepest Feelings
How and why opposites are the central thing in the folk stories of Africa, the Arctic, Asia, & more.
July 11 Evolution: Factual Evidence & Philosophic Meaning
July 21, Saturday, INSTEAD OF Wednesday, July 25
The Art of Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . We meet the Visual Arts and the Opposites class, taught by Marcia Rackow on Saturday July 21, 11 AM
August 8 Opposites Are Central to Anthropological Facts
Students in the class present their findings.
  
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