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| (also called Emic Anthropology or the New Ethnography)---anthropological perspective aimed at describing cultures from the native’s point of view |
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| Categories that people in different cultures use to sort and classify information with, such as: color, kinship, music genres, etc. |
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| method used to assemble and analyze folk taxonomies and ethnosemantic domains in cognitive anthropology |
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| xplores systems of meaning, humanistic and interpretative framework of cultural phenomenon. |
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| something which stands for something else. No necessary or intrinsic relationship. Makes humans humans and not animals. |
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| ritual, performance, liminality, communitas (separation, liminality, reincorporation) , social dramas (social life, with its interactions, transactions, reciprocities, customs for making regular, orderly sequences of behavior). |
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| symbols and their use operate to keep everyone in harmony. Symbol is smallest unit of ritual. |
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liminality
The Rite of Passage |
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| purity, pollution, symbolic analysis |
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| -Thick description - deeper detail, more specific, layers of significatio |
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| Marvin Harris is associated with: |
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| Marxist perspective for Gender studies |
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Individual power, “pillow talk”
-Domains: Domestic = female and public = male |
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Public and domestic spheres
-Women, culture, and society
-Anthropology of Women
-Shifts from emphasis of mere pottery, to studying the women who made the pottery.
-Understand women in different roles and the roots of female subordination. |
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Levi-Straussian perspective
-Cross-culturally, women are seen as closer to nature than man.
-Argued this was not true, associated men with culture and females with nature. |
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| Theorizing Beyond Dichotomies - argued against universal subordination |
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| Subordination of women originated from the womens role of actually being able to become pregnant. |
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| Marx’s conception of political economy allowed anthropologists to conceptualize sociocultural systems in terns of broader political, economic, and demographic relationships |
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| The World System: core + periphery (labor intensive goods + passive) |
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| Europe and the People without History |
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| Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History |
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| style of architecture, contrasted with “modern” architecture in being less geometric and functional and more fragmented. |
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| meaning self- criticism and self-awareness in the context of research. Critical reflection upon one’s own social/intellectual activities. The author of an ethnobiography giving a short auto-biography of him/herself |
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| (post-modern anthropologist and cultural constructionalist) |
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| custom of women living near their husbands’ relatives after marriage, synonym is patrilocal |
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| a supernaturally sanctioned prohibition |
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| the process of translating culture treated as text.--founded by Clifford Geertz |
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| scientific anthropological research strategy that attempts to acct. for cross-cultural similarities and differences by focusing upon the material constraints upon human activity. such as the mode of production and reduction. |
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| based upon rules, concepts, and categories meaningful to members of a particular culture. ( Perspective from within a culture) |
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| f, relating to, or involving analysis of cultural phenomena from the perspective of one who does not participate in the culture studied. (perspective from a culturally neutral person) |
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| Murdock's cultural universals |
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| by Emile Durkheim, George Murdock, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Donald Brownand others, is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures worldwide. |
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