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19 Cards in this Set
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Four Fields
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o Physical- fossil record of human evolution & contemporary primates
o Archaeology- study of material remains of human evolution o Cultural Anthropology- study cultural diversity in the contemporary period o Linguistic Anthropology- Diversity through language in the contemporary period |
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Ethnocentrism
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Viewing other cultures through your own
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Cultural Relativism
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Thinking every culture is just as important
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Reflexivity
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the author is explicit about his/her position in text- how it shapes the analysis of the ethnography. “Everybody is positioned- there is no view from nowhere”
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Agency
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ability for social action within a certain social, historical and cultural context
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Colonialism
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political, social and cultural domination of a territory of people by a foreign power for an extended time
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Imperialism
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an empire extends its rule over foreign nations
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White Man's Burden
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moral obligation to save the savages and give them Christianity
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Neoliberalism
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political doctrine. Belief in free market economy. Belief economy will develop by itself and benefit everyone.
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Studying Up
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studying classes above you, studying elites
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Patrilineage
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male members of a lineage. Line of descent traced through paternal side of the family
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Extended Family
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Family that is not your nuclear family. Three generations or more
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Fictive Kin
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a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguinal (blood ties) nor affinal ('by marriage') ties, in contrast to true kinship ties.
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Graduation Ceremony
American Aspects |
Music
Valedictorian Bouquets Arranged in rows Some families Diplomas Procession (modified because of their age) Messages National Anthem Sashes Flag |
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Graduation Ceremony
Siyum Aspects |
Color of the flowers
Hebrew names on the diplomas Constant reference to people of the book Rabbi Messages from Israel Recording from the Western Wall (older people found this very moving) Making donations to Israel in their names Hebrew School Kids |
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Graduation Ceremony
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• Celebrated religious learning but weren’t religious.
• Didn’t invite own children because they assumed they wouldn’t be interested but there were a bunch of American school children as witnesses • Chose which parts of Judaism appealed to them o They had childhood names on diploma o Israel and western wall (had video tapes of kids reciting the prayer) • Learning, most of them aren’t educated and women wouldn’t be educated |
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How do the travesti get gender?
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There relationship with their boyfriends is not about sexual pleasure, they are taking care of the man and give him gifts and travesti get gender from their boyfriend because they date straight men so they therefore cannot be men.
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How do the travesti get sex/sexuality?
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• They get sex/sexuality from their clinets because if they are being penetrated they are gay but if they are penetrating it is just pleasurable for them. They always want to be penetrated by their boyfriends because it makes them feel like the woman/wife. If they are penetrating they feel like big manly men. In every aspect other then bed they are the men because they are the bread winners.
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What does Butler argue?
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o Biology is always understood through culture. You are born with the physical gender but what you do with the genitals is open- you can explore different sex and sexuality.
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