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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
04/16/2013

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Redfield
Definition
University of Chicago
Studied Peasant society
Fieldwork in Mexico
Concept of folk urban contium
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Folk Urban Continuum
Definition
Folk-----Urban
Most societies fall into this continuum
Peasants in middle
Term
weltanschaung
Definition
world view
Term
2 world views on continuum
Definition
1. Moral Order
2. Technical order
Term
Moral Order
Definition
Society is held together for the good of life
common morality
Term
technical order
Definition
Society held together by mutual usefulness
necessity
Term
Peasants
Definition
produce crops for own needs and to sell
kinship ties
oral traditions
Term
Chan Kom
Definition
Mayan Village
Term
Dahomey
Definition
west africa -haiti
Term
culture bound
Definition
whenever we look at something its from our own perspective
Term
sapir
Definition
columbia
taught at univ of chicago
starts anthro department at yale
Term
benjamin whorf
Definition
linguist
the sapir/whorf hypothesis
Term
The Sapir/whorf hypothesis
Definition
the unconscious patters of language determine the way ppl see the world
Term
malinowski
Definition
worked with trobriand islands
Term
trobriand islands
Definition
fishing & gardening
matrilineal clans
arm bands and necklaces
Term
longest island
Definition
kiriwina
Term
head man
Definition
highest ranking member of highest ranking man
Term
redistribution
Definition
wealth goes to a central place & comes back down the land
Term
necklaces
Definition
clockwise
Term
armbands
Definition
counter clockwise
Term
Anxiety Theory
Definition
if there is a disease where there is no cure
if science cant help turn to religion or magic
Term
derived needs
Definition
create new needs
Term
social system
Definition
society
group w/in society
study social systems
Term
social structure
Definition
the underlying principle of organization
Term
conjunction
Definition
relationship pulled towards him
Term
disjunction
Definition
relationship pushed away
Term
Ruth Benedict
Definition
columbia
Zuni
Nietzsche
Term
Configurationism
Definition
Ruth Benedict
Do things that are compatable
Dont do things that arent
Term
zuni
Definition
American SW
Term
Nietzsche
Definition
Apalonian and dianician
Term
Dionysian
Definition
excess life
plains indians
Term
Apollonian
Definition
group values
Pueblos and Zuni
Term
Patterns of Culture
Definition
Ruth Benedict
Term
Reo Fortune
Definition
Sorcerers of Dobu
Term
Study of Culture at a distance
Definition
WWII anthro helped with understanding other countries
Term
The Chrysanthemum and the sword
Definition
Benedict
Term
sturm and drang
Definition
storm and stress
Term
arapesh
Definition
men and women feminine
Term
mundugumor
Definition
masculine men and women
Term
tchambuli
Definition
women masculine and men feminine
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