Anthropologists of Unit 3 Flashcards
Antonio Gramsci
[the term] hegemony
Victor Turner
rituals; liminality; liminoidal/ liminoidal communities; anti-structure; mudyi tree and the Ndembu people
Pierre Bourdieu
habitus; social capital; doxa; theory of fields
Michel Foucault
postmodernist; panoptican; power and truth
Mary Douglas
body fluids; pollution; disgust is cultural
Theodore Bestor
globalization; sushi and Japan; kaiten-zushi – conveyor belt sushi; konbini – convenience stores
Clifford Geertz
thick description; deep play; the cockfights in Balinese
Eleanor Leacock
post processualism; gender relations changed with introduction of private property in relation to agricultural practices
Lila Abu-Lughold
a tale of two pregnancies; biological clock; searching for children
Philippe Bourgois
righteous dope-fiend; marginalization as liminal and dangerous; women “displaced” men
Arjun Appadurai
globalization; -scapes [ethnoscapes, financialscapes, technoscapes, ideoscapes and mediascapes]
Renato Rosaldo
grief and the head-hunter’s rage; the Ilongot of the Philippines; analyzing his culture while analyzing another
Sally Slocum
male bias re. hunting/ gathering; man the hunter vs woman the gatherer
Claude Levi-Strauss
structuralism – unity and dualism; four Winnebago myths; binary oppositions
Allan Hanson
cultural invention; the Maori; no such thing as a “traditional” culture; “inventing culture”
