Six Degrees of Separation

This exercise for my Theory & Criticism course took me from defining culture, to monkeys, to gender studies:

"On Collecting Art and Culture," by James Clifford
My starting point was this essay, assigned for Theory & Criticism

1. "Human Culture: What is Culture?"
If you define culture as a series of learned behaviors, it can apply to animals, who learn from their elders how to do certain things

2. "Hot Tub Monkeys Offer Eye on Nonhuman Culture", by Bijal P. Trivedi
Monkeys with leisure time (from handouts) create cultural activities: bathing in hot springs, playing with stones like building blocks, washing vegetables

3. "The Rembrandt Code", by Bijal P. Trivedi
Coniosseur vs. computer: digital tech is used to authenticate art; esp helpful with Rembrandt, who had many pupils.

4. "The Ideal Man", featuring Nadine Orenstein
Ideal bodies as proportions, ideas embodied, masculine virtues. Ideals change with time. Different cultures have different ideas about the ideal.

5. "How To Be A Man", Tom Chiarella
Esquire defines the ideal man with a lot of gender constructions, like to drink whiskey and never wine.

6. Equal Couples blog, by Dr. Anne Mahoney and Dr. Carmen Knudson-Martin
A blog about achieving gender equality in relationships