Enhancing Short-Term Mission Effectiveness Through Cultural Anthropology Insights
Utilizing insights from cultural anthropology, this presentation delves into defining culture for short-term missions, viewing culture in successive levels, and key concepts such as cultural evolution and relativity. It explores the impact of culture on individuals and missions, emphasizing the importance of understanding and adapting to cultural nuances for successful engagement in cross-cultural settings.
- Short-term mission
- Cultural anthropology
- Cross-cultural engagement
- Cultural understanding
- Anthropological insights
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Plundering the Egyptians (or whatever Wilbur would have said) Using Cultural Anthropology insights to increase the effectiveness of Short-Term Mission
Defining culture for STM 1. What makes you a stranger when you re away from home 2. Ruth Benedict learned patterns 3. Charles Kraft Complex, integrated coping mechanism 4. Bob Sjogren -- What makes us us and them them
Viewing culture as successive levels Diagram by Lloyd Kwast
An iceberg as an analogy of culture
From Gary Weaver in Culture, Communication and Conflict: Readings in Intercultural Relations
Two key concepts: one outdated and one contemporary L.H. Morgan cultural evolution model Franz Boas cultural relativity
Stuff Wilbur wanted us to talk about Form and arbitrarily assigned function or meaning Contextualization Culture shock, culture fatigue, cultural adjustment Culture change Representative or ambassadorial model versus incarnational model
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