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34 Cards in this Set
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Marxist theory
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Pop culture used to control the economics of the masses
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Propaganda theory
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Pop culture serves people in power
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Feminist theory
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Sees pop culture as a means to keep women under men's control
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Transgression theories
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Moral panic, carnival theory, post-feminism
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Moral Panic
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When adult population takes things too seriously and thinks that the youth is losing their morals
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Carnival Theory
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People understand social norms in their lives by mocking them
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Uses and Gratification thoery
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People use the media for their own purposes
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Cultivation theory
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The media creates the status quo
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Selective-perception thoery
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People see what they want to see
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One Step Flow
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Message goes straight to audience
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Two Step Flow
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Message goes to intermediary before going to the audience
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Negotiated reading theory
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When the audience perceives something two ways: how it was meant to be perceieved and how it wasn't
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Semiotics (Opposition)
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People perceive differences in relational ways
Ex. Night v. day |
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Semiotics (Mythology)
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Pop culture linked together through chain of mythic themes
Ex. Good v. Bad & Male v. Female |
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Semiotics (Representation)
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Piece of culture stands for something other than what it really is
Ex. Princess Di's death |
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Pop Culture characteristics
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For the people & by the people
No distinction by class/race/etc. Can be satirical/playful Associated with youth Fleeting, ephemeral Widely distributed Associated with media |
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Pop Culture features
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Spectacle, Collage, Bricolage, Pastiche, Nostalgia
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Collage
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Putting various (maybe unrelated) things together
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Bricolage
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Emphasizes different culture
Like goth |
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Pastiche
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Satirizes other works
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Codices
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Found in several different places, most in 19th cent
Mostly about rituals & astronomy Done in tables with Long Count and almanacs with tzolk'in Thought to have been written during the Colonial Period |
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Codice issues
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Falling apart
Not positive where came from Not positive when written (thought 13th-15th cent) |
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Chilam Balam books' translation difficulty
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Complicated chronology, writing style, language, etc.
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Chilam Balam Tizimin
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Most historical of CB books, about Itza & Xiu
Comes from Manuel Luciano Perez (priest) No linear order Lots of metaphors/symbolism |
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Maya priests & CB prophecy
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Expected to predict/record events
Prophecize laying down, orally |
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Chilam Balam Chumayel
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Named after last great prophet of Maya
CB lived in 15th-16th cent & predicted Spaniards' invasion Not as much about the Spanish as other CB books |
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John Major Jenkins
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Crazy "scholar" who thinks the ball game is associated with the great rift in the middle of the Milky Way and that the Maya were very meditative people, and he's basically probably on drugs his whole life
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"Getting to 2012"
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Written by John L. Peterson
Lists actual reasons why the world might end/change drastically in 2012 (oil supply, climate change, species extinction, consumerism/debt) Also lists ways for people to just change world but save it |
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Four classes of prophecy
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Day prophecies, Year prophecies, Katun prophecies, Special prophecies
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Tzolk'in uses
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Prophecy/divination
GESTATION PERIOD! (crazzzzy!!) |
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Galactic alignment
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No big deal. Has done this past few years; will not cause any big affect in 2012; Maya wouldn't have had strong enough instruments to see this
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Tortueguero Monument Six
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The only Maya monument mentioning Dec 12, 2012
Doesn't say anything about world ending |
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Stone of Sun
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Aztec stone that people use as a "Maya" source depicting the end of the world
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Katun patterns
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Talk about invaders
Burning fire Abundance/drought Death Astronomy prevalent Christianity (some obviously written by Spanish) Plagues/sickness Civil war |
