lectures 8, 9, 10, 11. Flashcards
A word-picture of a people. Standard product of field work.
Ethnography
Four-field approach + cultural relativism
Franz Boaz
What is Culture?
Patterns of learned behavior and ideas along with the artifacts and structures humans create.
Learned, shared, patterned, adaptive, symbolic
The process of learning to live as a member of a group
Socialization
The process by which humans living with others learn ways of thinking and feeling that are culturally appropriate
Enculturation
Ethnocentrism
Opinion that one’s way of life is the only way
Cultural relativism
Understanding a culture in its own terms
Morality vs Ethics
Morality- informal public systems to govern and reduce harm
Ethics- statements of conduct
First nations research protocol
OCAP- ownership, control, access, reciprocity.
RESPECT, EQUITY, RECIPROCITY
Participant Observation
Being part of day to day activities helps you identify and build relationships. Process of deep listening.
Collaborative anthropology
Transect walks, focus group and social mapping
4 methods for cutting data to size
- item level
- pattern level
- structural level
- making model level
Ethnographers have three basic kinds of data
what people say
what they do
what they leave behind
3 types of design and Anthropology
Anthropology for design
Design for anthropology
Anthropologies of design
Anthropology for design
Value of observing at core of anthropology. Videotaping mother= gogurt example. “work around”. how people really engage with their world
Anthropologies of design
studying design
What is Kinship?
Who we are related to
Why we are related to them
What we owe them and what they owe us..
**fundamental principle of fairness. began with hunter-gatherers.
3 types of reciprocity
Generalized- give without expectation of return
Balanced- explicit expectation of immediate return
Negative- get more than what is given
Respect of the ones you give to and respect that is afforded to you for giving
Status
You are obligated to give, receive and return a gift
Obligation
Obligation to give, receive, repay. serves as means to redistribute perishable goods and items of high value. building alliances
Potlatching
5 purposes of money
- payment
- standard of value
- store of wealth
- means of exchange
- means of expression
* *symbol of state and power
Dutch tulip bulbs
a bulb worth 10 years of a craftsman salary
1929 stock market crash
great depression
A cashless society
India. nullified 86% of all cash in circulation
worlds richest 85 people have as much as ___billion people
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