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60 Cards in this Set
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Van Gennep's 3 Stages of RItual
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Separation
Liminality Reaggregation |
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"Egg and Sperm" |
Illuminates gender stereotypes hidden within scientific language of biology
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Sex
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The biological difference between males and females
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Gender
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The social meaning attributed to maleness and femaleness
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Gender identity
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language
ritual mass media science |
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Ju/wasi family structure
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Nuclear family, husband wife and children
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Trobriand family structure
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matrilineal extended family, based on relationship between the brother and sister
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Chinese family structure
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patrilineal, extended family, focuses around the father and son
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Ju/wasi family formation
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parents arrange marriage
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Trobriand family formation
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young people court freely
parents must approve |
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Chinese family
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parents arrange marriage
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Ju/was role of wealth
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unimportant
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Trobriand role of wealth
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important to maintain the social rank of the matriliniage
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CHinese family role of wealth
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need to pay brideprice, dowry
important to sustain patrilineal extended family |
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Ju/wasi threats to the family
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infidelity
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Trobriand threat to the family
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death
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chinese threat to family
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no son
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consanguine
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through blood
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Unilineal descent
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Descent through one parent
Most common |
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Patrilineal
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lineage traced through the father
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Matrilineal
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kinship traced through the mother
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Bilineal
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kinship from both parents
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Polygamy
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Multiple marriages
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Polygyny
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man marrying more than one wife
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Polyandry
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woman marrying more than one man
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Exogamy
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marrying outside a particular group
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Endogamy
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marrying within a group
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Levirate
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brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry the widow
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Sororate
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when a man is obliged to marry his deceased wife's sister
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brideservice
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groom working for bride's parents
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bridewealth
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form of payment offered to bride's family
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dowry
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inheritance to women in the form of movable property
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cross cousins
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people related through siblings of the opposite sex at the parental generation
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parallel cousins
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people related through siblings of the same sex at the parental generation
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patrilocal
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living with or near the grooms family
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matrilocal
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living with or near the brides family
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avunculocal
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near maternal uncle
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neolocal
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establishing an independent domestic unit away from parents
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bilocal
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choice between living near the groom or the brides family
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family
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people who consider themselves related by kinship
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household
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domestic group who may not be related by kinship
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extended household
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containing more than one adult couple
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nuclear household
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one adult couple with or without children
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What is Abu Lughod arguing against
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A holistic view of culture- emphasizes shared patterns at the expense of processes of change, conflict and contradictions
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ethnographic present
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writing about a society/community in the present tense
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PROBLEMS WITH THE ETHNOGRAPHIC PRESENT
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it ignores change
makes societies appear timeless ignores history |
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Abu Lughods Goals
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Write a different kind of ethnography
What does it mean to be a feminist What does it mean to be a feminist ethnographer |
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Problems with generalizations
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allows for the fixing of boundaries
language of power produces effects of homogeneity erases time and conflict |
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Problems with the Culture Concept
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masks the fluidity of group boundaries
produces others differences between other and self will always be hierarchic |
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Abu- Lughods solution
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storytelling
storyis situated challennges |
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Abu Lughods ACTUAL GOALS
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to write an ethnography in a different voice
challenge dominant understandings about Muslim women Callenge language of generalization and the ethnographic present |
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Structure
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Social norms values institutions processes ideologies that regulate human behavior
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Agency
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culturakky constrained capacity to act
not free will not always resistance |
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How doesAbu-Lughod historicize contextualize and encounter the ethnographic presnt
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Impact of WW2 on Awlad Ali
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Story telling as a meaningful rhetorical and social device
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social commentary, indirect mode of address
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Role of outsiders to the Bedouins
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a source of trouble
a resource to compete over |
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Ethnocentric Fallacy \
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the odea that our beliefs and behaviors are right and true and the beliefs and behaviors of othera are wrong and misguided
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relativistic fallacy
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it is impossible to make moral judgments on the beliefs and practices of others
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Ethnography
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immersion of investigatos in the lives of the people they are trying to understand, and through that experiencethe attainment of some level of understanding of the meaning people ascribe to their existence
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Participant observation
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the active participation of observers in the lives of their subjects
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