13. Anthropological Approach

Question 1

What do cultural anthropologists study?

Answer 1

They emphasize the thought, feeling, beliefs, behaviors, and products of human cultures and societies

Question 2

What do cultural anthropologists focus and learn from?

Answer 2

Focus on living culture and learn through fieldwork

Question 3

Qualitative or quantitative research?

Answer 3

Qualitative

Question 4

Ethnography? + Ethical guidelines

Answer 4

Living and working among people we want to study

Ethical guidelines, like permission

Question 5

Participant-observation?

Answer 5

Inderider’s and outsiders perspective

Question 6

Ideals vs. Realities?

Answer 6

What people say they do, and what they actually do

Question 7

Anthropological Principles?

Answer 7

1. Methods, fieldwork
2. Cultural relativism
3. Ethical, research methods and seeking social justice
4. Holistic, interconnectedness of cultural system and society
5. Comparative, explore and understand similarities and differences across spatial and temporal cultural diversity

Question 8

The cultural concept?

Answer 8

• Culture is all the understanding that people share as a member of a community
• Human nature, learned and shared -> not part of our DNA
• Ideas and Beliefs, our thoughts
• Practices, behavior and tradition
• Communicated through symbols
• REsource we draw on to inform our actions
• Use it to act in our social world, agency
• Changes
• Holistic

Question 9

What are the 5 part of culture?

Answer 9

• What we think, cognition, ideas and beliefs conceptualized
• What we do, behavior and traditions, communicative and performative
• What we have, material culture, materialized
• Where it is, within us, embodied

Question 10

4 Characteristics of Culture?

Answer 10

Learned, not in our DNA
Communicated, based on sign & symbols
Holistic, all aspects are interconnected
Shared, belonging with others of our culture
Adaptive & changing

Question 11

Society?

Answer 11

Based on a geographical place, people live, dependent and interact with one another and share aspects of culture in common

Question 12

How is society heterogeneous?

Answer 12

It’s composed of ethnic groups/indigenous peoples and affinity groups

Question 13

Ethnicity?

Answer 13

DEscribes cultural identity in relation to other groups, draws upon identity markers of heritage, history, language, food, music, etc.

Question 14

Ancestry?

Answer 14

Descriptive biological evidence of their origins

Question 15

How should we celebrate cultural diversity?

Answer 15

Without fear of differences.

Not racialize but still acknowledge the lived experience of racism

Question 16

Commonalities of Human Existence?

Cultural universals -> our commonalities

Answer 16

• Culture serves purpose, had functions
• Culture should provide for the basic needs of the group (food, water, shelter, companionship, security)
• Patterns to reproduction, social group
• Well-being & quality of life, happiness, and meaning

Question 17

How is culture our operating system?

Answer 17

We use it to guide on in our daily life and in society

Question 18

Body?

Answer 18

• Biological Ancestry
• DNA, inherited family resemblance
• GEnetic potentials and limitations influenced by physical and social environment

Question 19

Self?

Answer 19

Unique personality
Your experiences
Sense of self

Question 20

Person?

Answer 20

• Social statuses occupied, age, gender, class, ethnicity, race, occupation
• Roles performed according to learned and shared cultural norms in society
• Social order equitable or not

Question 21

Culture is embodied, materialized, and performed through?

Answer 21

• Learned
• Shared
• Communicated
• Holistic
• Adaptive
• Changing