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Intro to Cultural Anthropology
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/21/2013

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4 fields of anthropology
Definition
biological/physical
linguistic
socio-cultural
archaelogical
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ethnocentric
Definition
putting your people in the center/favoring them
Term
ethnology
Definition
study of people
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Herder
Definition
1774
German
summarize entire nations by the attributes of their culture
during empirial times
part of political process, superiority
rooted to RACE
not anthropological
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Tylor
Definition
1871
British
it is complex whole
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Boas
Definition
Father of american anthropology
Race is not equal to culture
about historicism, your shared history
EXPERIENCE
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Culture
Definition
Shared patterns of meaning and learned behavior
also patterns of expectation and responsibility
(implicit meanings)
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Ethnography
Definition
The written account of a group of people
have to be able to compare societies side by side
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Monaghan
Definition
-In Mexico
-political subdivision of oaxaca
-Santiago Nuyoa
-The Mixtec people or Nuyootecos
-Bee Larva hunting story *** Food vs. Not Food Onion Soup
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Just
Definition
-In Indonesia, in bima,
-studied in Doro Ntika
-Studied the Dou Donggo
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Schlegal
Definition
-Philippines
-Studied in Mindinau
-Studied in Figel(pseudonym)
-Studied the Teduray
-Birds vs. Animals in Teduray Mythology
Term
ethnocentricity
Definition
inability to understand another culture
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Doro Ntika (home of the Do Donggo)
Definition
-Dispute in Donggo
-La Ninde
-Ina Mone
-Ama Panci-(son betrothed to girl flirting w/ la ninde)
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Classification systems
Definition
Generating categories that are universal within a culture
Do not fit? = Liminal
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