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2700:2025:6 [2025/03/30 20:11] – [A bold assertion. What do we make of it?] Ryan Schram (admin)2700:2025:6 [2025/04/28 01:18] (current) – [How do you define normal?] Ryan Schram (admin)
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-======= What should anthropology say about being "ordinary"? ======+==== What should anthropology say about being "ordinary"? ====
  
 * The most important paradigms in anthropology assume on some level that social order has a normative aspect, and that social actors operate in relation to rules and rule-like ideas. Do we agree? * The most important paradigms in anthropology assume on some level that social order has a normative aspect, and that social actors operate in relation to rules and rule-like ideas. Do we agree?
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 ===== How do you define normal? ===== ===== How do you define normal? =====
  
-  * The people in the Portland coffeshop were saying themselves “We’re normal.”+  * The people in the Portland coffeshop were saying to themselves “We’re normal.”
   * Orokaiva people are normal human beings because they aren’t like //ejeba// people, //ol waitman//.   * Orokaiva people are normal human beings because they aren’t like //ejeba// people, //ol waitman//.
   * Workers at Signature Fashions think of themselves as middle-income people, neither rich nor poor.   * Workers at Signature Fashions think of themselves as middle-income people, neither rich nor poor.
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