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16 Cards in this Set
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Carithers
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"You cannot analyze a culture and a person with a simple machine, and the most complex machine in the world is the human mind"
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Erickson
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A balance of culturally relative and ethnocentric points of view. Awareness of the distinction is vital, another person's view could be different
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Agar
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Talking about being immersed in the culture to be able to report on it "we should know something about the history of the relationship [between the interviewer and interviewee] to fully evaluate the interview"
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Geertz
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In each of these analyses there is a continuous dialectical tacking between the most local of local detail and the most global of global structure in such a way as to bring them into simultaneous view
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Fabian
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“It is not the dispersal of human cultures in space that leads anthropology to “temporalize”… it is naturalized-spatialized Time which gives meaning…to the distribution of humanity in space” (25).
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Horace Miner
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Body Rituals among the Nacirema (American). Satirizing how we perceive other “primitive cultures” and write anthropological studies on them.
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Filip de Boek
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“Funeralshave not only become a means for political contestation, but in a much broader sense death has become an occasion for youngsters to criticize the role of parents and elders.” (De Boeck).
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Palgi and Abrovonitch
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“Common funeral practice reflects the values of a ‘civil religion in America.’ The embalmed corpse is a central icon in this civil religion’s giving of an aura of ‘impassive benevolence,’ all the more powerful a symbol since in most contexts it is otherwise avoided”
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Kiessling and Mous
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'antilanguage' – the organic creation of a sublanguage in urban areas that many of the youth partake in. It goes above and beyond just a few slang words, and is a language in all of itself. As they note, “their antilanguage is not the only social metasign used to create and sustain difference and identity. Other codes of metasigns are music, dance, clothing, hair style, comic books, and other popular literature.” In this way, language has just as much of an impact on culture as do other cultural identifiers.
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Guy Deutscher
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“When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time.”
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Karl Marx |
Commodity fetishism, as coined by Marx (1867) is the lust and desire of a specific object that enchants the consumer into feverishly consuming the product and not being concerned about the way that these commodities are produced. |
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Gell |
Argues that objects do not have direct intent but rather have “secondary agency” and are therefore channels of inferred intentionality/agency for the primary agents, the people. “Houses are collective in the simplest sense of all, that people collect in them, and are joined together by them” (252). |
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Gosden & Marshall |
“The present significance of an object derives from the persons and events to which it is connected” (1999, 170). |
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Powell |
Essay about how she got her first cell phone and how obsessed she was with it - eventually it was stolen and she talked about how it would never be the same cell phone again. That they didn’t appreciate it etc. Shows an object’s agency created by its owner. |
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Latour |
Latour(1999) claims that all objects have human-like affiliations and therefore have intentions. These intentions are the quality of agency within an object. |
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Huntington |
Bara study with men vs women in how they handle death. The burial process and how it equates to men = order, death while women = disruption, life. |
