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What is anthropology? What do they study?
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The study of culture, attitudes, beliefs, values. What people desire, want.
They study economics, sex and gender roles, social structure, poverty, education |
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What was the body rituals among the Nacirema?
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They are very religious people who do things to their body like burns there hands, and insert hairs into the teeth once a year. But, their teeth are falling out. The healer is the only one who can help. If they are accepted in the church, it is an honor, yet they don't know if they will survive.
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How did the anthropologist feel about the Nacirema people?
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It is judgmental. The words and tone she says sounds like she thought people were crazy if they were apart of this.
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What was the lesson that they were they trying to teach him in The Christmas story? (summarize)
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In the hunting and gathering tribe, eating a fat cow on christmas day is what they do. So, he got a cow as a thank you gift. And, they told him that it wouldn't be enough food. But, that was a lie. The cow was more than perfect for the occasion, and it taught him that they people were accepting him, and that they train all the younger hunters to think that no matter what they do, there cow is not the best because they don't want the hunters getting hothead over themselves.
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What kind of method do he use in the christmas story?
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Participant-observation.
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What are the 4 fields of anth? Describer
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Cultural: social structure, etc.
Physical (Foresenics): bones, bodies Linguistics: language and communication Archaeology: materials, bones |
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What is human evolution? Social Evolution?
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Human: physical and intelligent progression
Social: social structure change. |
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What does it mean to work in a holistic manner? Who is an example of this?
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To work in all 4 fields. Franz Boas was the first to work this way.
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What did you learn from understandingrace.org?
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Race is named by culture.
It was created by a mutation to help protect from the sun. We all are heading to one mixture. All the gene variations started in Africa. Race is shades. No one out of the norm. |
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According to Malinowski, what is the best way to learn about a culture?
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Participant observation; being truly envolve.
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What is the skeleton, flesh and bones of a culture? (Malinowski)
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Skeleton is the statistical information. Body is filled with the culture that is need to be understand by the ethnographer.
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How will method affect the study? (Malinowski)
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The things noticed, and documented help lead to a pattern. So, having a wide eye for things, and documenting it all helps.
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What is the purpose of the study? (Malinowski)
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To bring back information in a clear convincing manner that is right.
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What is double entry field notes?
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Two columns. One senses, phrases, quotes. The section is reactions.
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Why is writing your reactions important?
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To see where your judgment falls, and to start asking questions.
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How can the perspective of the ethnographer change the study?
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It can narrow the "viewing" of the enthographer.
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What is mapping? Why is important to indicate?
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Drawing a map of an area, to see where the focal point is, and where the action takes place.
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What is unity and tension?
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Unity is bring together a theme of that data. Tension is emotions that can lead to more questions and answers.
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What is colonized?
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The fact that people are in a place that they dont want to be.
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What are social categories? How did Herskovits related to them? What is their power?
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Social categories are groups of similar people that is made my culture? Herskovits was a Jewish American; he didn't know which one he belong to. They have the power to make people inferior.
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Should Anthropologist be political? Was Herskovits political?
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It's up to the anthro. Herskovits claimed that you shouldn't but his actions showed otherwise.
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What happens when work is published?
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No one knows. The author has an intention, but that doesn't mean the public will take it that way. Like how Herskovit's work was took to fight back.
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Who was Franz Boas? What did he disagree with anthropologist around his time?
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Like a father to anth. Was the first to think race was separated from culture.
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How should an anthologist work be? Subjective or Objective? What are they? What was Malinkowiski?
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It is up to the anth. Combination would be my favorite. Malinkowiski was objective.
Subjective: judgments based on personal impressions. Objective: judgements based on observable facts |
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What is emic and etic perspective?
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emic: is insider info.
etic: is outsider. |
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What is positionality? How can affect an anthropologist’s work?
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It how the anth is positioned. It can interfere with credibility if there is personal issue.
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What is deductive or inductive research?
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Deductive: start with a theory.
Inductive: form a theory based on research |
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What is functional theory? What are some ways to analysis?
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Functional theory is analysis. To analysis to see certain patterns.
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What is interpretive Anthropology (Geertz)?
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Symbolic. There is discourse in the signs and meaning behind the actions and words.
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What does he say about interpretations? (Geertz)
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That they are just interpretations. They can be right, but everyone's is different. That they are layers over them. Once you find out one, there is more to it, and it will never stop.
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How are interpretations made? (Geertz)
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Based on careful observations of signs within context.
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What is cultural theory?
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Theories that are meant to made on a specific part of a tribe/society. Not ment to use as a pattern for other cultures. (Ethocentric)
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What does it mean by “do not study the village; study in the village”?
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The means a generalization. in is a specific part
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What types of theory did Franz Boas, Malinkoski, Radcliff-Brown believe in?
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They believed in functionalism: that society formed based of biological needs. Radcliffe-Brown is more about equilibrium of power
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