Thursday, September 16, 2010

Beginning of the End

This is the beginning of my blog for my Anthropology course: Culture, Religion and the Environment, as well as the beginning of my last semester at HPU (thus the title).  This is actually quite a recent development, as I found out I could take one more course than I thought I could this semester, allowing me to graduate early (and not waste next semester with mostly fluff courses, as appealing as that may sound.  It is because of this that I was actually not able to go to the first session of this course.  The first week of courses actually ended up being a swirling maelstrom of changes in my schedule before finally settling on graduating early.

With missing the first week in mind, I figured I'd just talk about what I think Culture, Religion, and the Environment are/is.  For instance, why are these three concepts included in the title of a course?  For my part, I think that religion is located within culture, and culture is mostly our response to the environment.  I say "mostly" because I feel that culture is also creative.  It isn't simply our response to the environment in order to survive, but involves the creative capacity of humanity; a simple example being art which goes beyond the utility of the artistic object.  It is with this viewpoint that I came into the class.

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