Anth 204

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Epidemiological approach

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Spreading globally, public and evolutionary basis.

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Orientalism

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In studying the east, western scholars exoticise them. Power through knowledge.

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What did Radcliffe-Brown want to know?

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What kept society together.

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What is mechanical solidarlity?

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Collective consciouness, everyone did the same kind of work. Hunter-gather societies.

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What is organic solidarity?(Organic Analogy)

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Interdependence, everyone has a different kind of job but everyone needs people who do a different job to them. Modern society.

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What are the 3 approaches to social structure?

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Social morphology, Social physiology and Social evolution.

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What is Social morphology?

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Observing social interactions.

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What is Social physiology?

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Society as an organism.

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What is Social evolution?

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A change in social structure.

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Taboo

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Social prohibitions that reinforce collective consciousness.

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Avunculate

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A special relationship between a Mother's Brother and the mother's son which consists of jokes and sexual play which balances out the familial bias in patrilineal societies.

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What does Levi-Strauss think Anthropology is?

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A deductive science which should show the hidden logic of societies.

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Thick description

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Interpreting meaning

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What did Geertz think culture was?

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A web of meaning.

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Balinese cock fight was who's most controvercial piece?

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Geertz

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Critiques of Geertz

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Essentialisation of Balinese life

A-Historical

Exoticisation of others

Thick description is not a substitute for explanation

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Does Sahlins agree with Geertz?

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Yes, BUT he says that action is always historical and meanings change depending on the action

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What does Bourdieu do?

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Seeks strategies

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Illusio

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Belief in the game as something worth doing. Not the practice of the game but the belief that it is worth it.

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Habitus

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Structured and structuring dispositions

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What are Bourdeiu's types of capital?

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Economic Capital

Cultural Capital

Social Capital

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Class positions

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create different dispositions and strategic orentations

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What does Economic position determine?

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Habitus and tatse expression

Conditioned by necessity and expressed in taste

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What are the 3 classes that Bourdeiu recognises?

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Bourgoisie (high class)

Petite Bourgeoisie (middle class)

Working class (low class)

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Symbolic violence

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Hierarchy of class judgements

Music - classical music is the highest genre of music

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What did Foucault believe the panopticon was?

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An example of bio power turning into self surveilance

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Governmentality

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How the government creates ideas about something being normal for society which eventually becomes a self surveilling thin. e.g. not doing things against the law

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Bio Power

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Control exercised over whole populations

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Disciplinary Power

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Control exercised over a singular person

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What was Appadurai's main idea?

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Ethnoscapes - connected mobile people

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Who was the anthropologist associated with phenomenology?

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Michael Jackson

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Phenomenology

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Focus on thelived experience through lifeworlds and embodied practical knowledge instead of conceptual descritptions

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Lifeworlds

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Worlds of lived experience

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What was Ingold's main idea?

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Society is Rhizomic

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Rhizomic vs. Aborescent

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Rhizomic is unpredictable, roots in all directions

Aborescent is binary and hierarchial

They are opposites

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According to Bloch what are the 2 levels that society has?

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Transactional and Transcendental

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Transactional society

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Dominance displays, like animal societies

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Transcendental society

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Social roles with rights and duties

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Ontology

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Understanding of reality and what constitutes it

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What are the 2 opposites in Ontology?

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Animism, interiors shared but exteriors different

Naturalism, exteriors shared but interiors different

Opposite of each other

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Mythopraxis

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The belief that meaning is precoded in myth,taking into account of history when looking at myth