lectures 8, 9, 10, 11. Flashcards

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A word-picture of a people. Standard product of field work.

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Ethnography

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2
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Four-field approach + cultural relativism

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Franz Boaz

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3
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What is Culture?

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Patterns of learned behavior and ideas along with the artifacts and structures humans create.
Learned, shared, patterned, adaptive, symbolic

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4
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The process of learning to live as a member of a group

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Socialization

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5
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The process by which humans living with others learn ways of thinking and feeling that are culturally appropriate

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Enculturation

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6
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Ethnocentrism

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Opinion that one’s way of life is the only way

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7
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Cultural relativism

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Understanding a culture in its own terms

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8
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Morality vs Ethics

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Morality- informal public systems to govern and reduce harm

Ethics- statements of conduct

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9
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First nations research protocol

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OCAP- ownership, control, access, reciprocity.

RESPECT, EQUITY, RECIPROCITY

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10
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Participant Observation

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Being part of day to day activities helps you identify and build relationships. Process of deep listening.

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11
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Collaborative anthropology

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Transect walks, focus group and social mapping

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12
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4 methods for cutting data to size

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  1. item level
  2. pattern level
  3. structural level
  4. making model level
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13
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Ethnographers have three basic kinds of data

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what people say
what they do
what they leave behind

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14
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3 types of design and Anthropology

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Anthropology for design
Design for anthropology
Anthropologies of design

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15
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Anthropology for design

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Value of observing at core of anthropology. Videotaping mother= gogurt example. “work around”. how people really engage with their world

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16
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Anthropologies of design

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studying design

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17
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What is Kinship?

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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.

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18
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3 types of reciprocity

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Generalized- give without expectation of return
Balanced- explicit expectation of immediate return
Negative- get more than what is given

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19
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Respect of the ones you give to and respect that is afforded to you for giving

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Status

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20
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You are obligated to give, receive and return a gift

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Obligation

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21
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Obligation to give, receive, repay. serves as means to redistribute perishable goods and items of high value. building alliances

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Potlatching

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22
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5 purposes of money

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  1. payment
  2. standard of value
  3. store of wealth
  4. means of exchange
  5. means of expression
    * *symbol of state and power
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23
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Dutch tulip bulbs

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a bulb worth 10 years of a craftsman salary

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24
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1929 stock market crash

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great depression

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A cashless society
India. nullified 86% of all cash in circulation
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worlds richest 85 people have as much as ___billion people
3.5
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Cost of inequality
reduction of trust decrease in social capital higher violence and homicide "bicycling effect"
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A typical US CEO makes____ times the base worker pay
373
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Effects of a consumer society
decreased cost of living rising living standards improving differentiation of products and choices
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Proctor and gamble
Research, development, and communication
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Louis Cheskin
Principle of sensation transference
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Creating marketing unique to each society
Bottom up marketing
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Using universal symbols and ideas and customizing them to unique societal norms
Top down marketing
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___ is more threatening than shortage
Overproduction
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_____ is a greater problem than shortage
Consumption
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Wold today uses ____ planets to produce and absorb our waste
1.5
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Theory of the leisure class
Goods for social gain. Conspicuous leisure+ consumption. belief in luck
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Garbology project is an example of...
Inconspicuous consumption
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Five categories of time
1. Working time 2. Personal work time 3. Consumption time 4. Cultivation of mind/spirit time 5. Time idleness * *running to stand still
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Familistic
ego centric
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non-familistic
socio-centric
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Consanguinal kin
blood
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Non-consanguinal kin
affinal kin (by marriage) or adoption (treated as kin)
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Parakinship
Building a network that mimics a family. survival, conections. Gangs. organized (fosterages) or unorganized (bestfriend).
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Who said that the function of a social institution is the correspondence between it and the needs of the social organism?
AR Radcliffe-Brown
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Year in which women become persons
1929
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Indian act status
``` 6(1) can pass on 6(2) can not pass on 2 6(2) makes a 6(1) child ```
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Bilateral descent
equally related through mothers and fathers
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Unilineal descent
people are related either through mothers or fathers
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A set of kin who trace descent from a common ancestor
Lineage
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A set of kin who believe they descend from a common ancestor but do not trace that descent
Clan (sib)
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A set of related clans
Phratry
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One of two unilineal descent groups, usually phratries, in a society
Moiety
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Joking relationship
Radcliffe-Brown. two kids, reciprocal and asymmetric.
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4 types of residence after marriage
Neolocal residence- new place Partilocal residence- near hubands father Matrilocal residence- near wifes mother Avunulocal residence- near husbands mothers brother
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Polygyny
more than one wife
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Polyandry
more than one husband
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productive specialization
berdache people, third gender, doing other gendered tasks
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A territorial area, politically recognized as a country by people within and governments outside.
A country
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“a set of institutions successfully claiming a monopoly over political rule-making and the legitimate use of violence and coercion within a given territory
A state. also provides protection
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Persuading subjects to accept an ideology that portrays domination by the ruling class as legitimate
Hegemony
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_____is power preoccupied with bodies, both the bodies of citizens and the social body of the state itself. ex census taking
Biopower
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____are ranked groups within a hierarchically stratified society that is closed, prohibiting individuals from moving between castes.
Castes
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Inequality is rooted in
Gender, class, caste, race, ethnicity
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Two key ingredients in a civilization
Need for a common cultural framework Ability to generate networks of self-replicating power Constructing of “the other”
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Best known for world systems theory
Immanuel wallerstein
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Nation-state
became the ideal political unit in which national identity and political territory are conjoined.