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2 Major Global phenomena that transformed the world
Capitalism and Colonialism
How did Capitalism affect colonized peoples?
Got rid of bartering system and made land a valuable to be bought. Emphasizes exchange value instead of how useful it is.
How did Colonialism affect people of the world?
Needed colonies for wealth, and they needed force to do that.
Define neocolonialism
Social and economic entanglements between former territories and former rulers.
What are the five major typologies?
Evolutionary, Social Structural, Culture Area Studies, Cold War and Comparative Study of Processes
Explain Evolutionary typologies
Cultures and societies are on a line. Savagery to Barbarism to Civilization.
Explain Social Structural typologies
Narrows in on the social structure of groups and how its viewed. Doesn't like the idea of superior and inferior races.
Explain Culture Area studies
People and practices could move across social boundaries. Races and languages varied between each culture.
Explain Cold War typologies
First (Developed), Second (Communist) and Third Worlds (Underdeveloped)
Explain Comparative Study of Processes
Follow the culture as it changes and tell where its been
4 areas of cultural practice
Play, art, myth, ritual
Cultural Practice that is consciously adapted by players and is a framed context outside of the real world
Play
2 forms of meta communication
Framing and reflexivity
Cultural practice that is play with aesthetically pleasing results
Art
Cultural practice that appears as a story that explains the world with a set of rigid rules
Myth
Cultural Practice that is repeated often but set aside from regular life and has a schema and has a sequence of symbolic activities
Ritual
Define Liminality
Ambiguous transitional phase
3 stages of liminality
Radical resocialization, rituals of rebellion and comunitas
6 design features of language
Openness, displacement, arbitrariness, prevarication, multilevel patterning and semantics
Define Openness
speaker can create new messages
Define displacement
speaker can talk about things that aren't there
Define arbitrariness
speaker can lie
Define prevarication
ability to lie
Define multilevel patterning
using small units (like words) and putting them together (to make sentences)
Define Semantics
Using language to describe and interact with the world
Strong Sapir-wharf
language determines how we see the world
Weak Sapir-wharf
language is shaped and shapes culture which shapes and is shaped by the real world
Paralanguage
acting things out without words