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| Of, relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. (Some idiots call it equalitarianism) |
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| 4 subfields of Anthropology |
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-Cultural/Societal
-Archeology
-Linguistics
-Physical |
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| Judging other cultures based on the values and predispositions of one's own culture. To think that one's culture is the centre of the universe, or the way things should be. Expecting others to adapt to your culture easily. I could go on for hours here. |
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| The view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words, “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another, and, since no universal standard of morality exists, no one has the right to judge another society’s customs. |
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-A set of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society
-Is what allows us to give a meaning to our world, our surroundings and our actions, as well as to understand the meanings of the actions of others around us.
-Both provides understanding and blinds us to alterna?ve meanings
• Is made together with other people
• Is always changing
• Is always shaped by power rela?ons
• It is shared, but not completely |
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| food, language, dress, religion, built environment, politics, norms and laws, media, art, government systems, economy, objects and symbols, events holidays and celebrations, gender roles/expectations, social classes, age, interactions, with nature/enviromnet, knowledge and education and technology, celebrities and social icons, and the ideal self |
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A research method of spending hours, weeks, months, even years, just chatting.
Result of this research: (generally) a book describing and analyzing a social reality and/or set of issues
Time, Relationships, Everyday Life, Language
This is the heart of the discipline, one of its constant elements, a defining feature of anthropology |
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• Studied Philosophy, Physics, Science and Mathematics in Krakow (Poland), and in London (UK)
• Taught in London Social Anthropology
• 1915-18: fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands (New Guinea, Southwestern Pacific).
His idea of Fieldwork:
• Long-term permanence
• Holism
• Field notes
• Need to record daily life with all of its details and complexity
• Need to record people’s quotes
• Participant observation
• Fieldwork helps us understand how a society/culture work – trained researcher can understand some of the underlying systems and meanings
• Different aspects of society are connected, work together |
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| Other Methods of Ethnography |
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• Collecting life stories
• Interviewing
• Archival research
• Media analysis
• Conducting a census
• Video recording
• Photography
• Mapping
• Interpretative walks and guided tours
• Studying the history of the area
• Conducting surveys |
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| Questions Anthropologists ask about space |
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• How are spaces experienced, named, defined, used, and lived in a particular society?
• How does space help construct a parCcular sense of self/identity?
• How are social relations inscribed in space, and vice versa, how is space used to inscribe social relations? |
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eat plants and animals but do not domesticate them
no centralized authority
no standing armies
no bureaucratic system
Acephalous, no political leaders. literally, to not have a head
egalitarian, equal
no wealth, share resources
nomadic |
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| The theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the whole, or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts. _________ is often applied to mental states, language, and ecology. The opposite of atomism. |
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• Slash and burn/shifting cultivation
• A lot of land, little technology
• Can include keeping animals, hunting, fishing, gathering
• Settled in villages
• Leaders or chiefs |
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Mini economy centres on animal herding
Family group owns animals
Many are nomadic
often lived in marginal areas
egalitarian, no state societies |
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| What is De Koning's Research question? |
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-How did the middle class emerge in Cairo?
-What does a cosmopolitan orientated society do to the lower and middle classes?
-What happened to a postcolonial middle class that was once the carrier of national aspirations and dreams?
-Explores how young middle-class professionals navigate Cairo's increasingly divided landscape and discusses the rise of a young upper-middle class presence in the work, leisure, and public spaces of the city.
-Examines Cairo's experience of economic liberalization in an era of globalization. |
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| What is Walsh's research questions? |
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How are the ecotourism and mining industries related to each other; how are they connected?
How is this relationship paradoxical?
What are the local attitudes of conservation? Of mining? Of the sacredness of the rocks? Of the boom of ecotourism? |
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Monogamy
Polygamy
Polyandry
Polygyny |
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One lover
Multiple lovers
Many husbands
Many wives |
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| The term refers to non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means. |
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| means everyone dependent on a certain male. root for family |
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| Related through common blood |
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-Founding father of kinship studies
-Studied Iroquois in Upper New York State
-Spread a questionnaire around the world
-Published "Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity in the Human Family" |
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| The Classificatory Kinship System |
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| Classifies a whole group of relative under a single term |
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| A Descriptive Kinship System |
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| Uses separate words to describe (or recognize) each distinct relationship. |
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| Social bodies and Physical Bodies |
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both:
Grow bigger
get an increasingly complex structure
various parts gradually acquire mutual dependence |
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| Freezing people for future revival, coined in 1965 |
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| right side left side; body; sex |
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| right side MALE -- left side FEMALE |
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| random celebrations of nothing in particular. just a celebration of life and love and everyones welcome |
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