Readings Flashcards

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Anthropological Perspective

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Approach that compares human societies throughout the world- contemporary, historical, industry and tribal.

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Anthropology

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Integrated study of humanity

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Holism Approach

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Study a community within a city

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Four fields of Anthropology

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Physical, archaeology, linguistic, cultural

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Physical Anthropology

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Study of human biology and evolution (Genetics, evolutionary theory, biology and behaviour of primates, and palaeontology the study of fossils

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Archaeology

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Study of people wha re known only from their physical and cultural remains which gives insight of extinct socieities

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Linguistic

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Study of language (religious practice, expression)

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Cultural Anthropology

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Study of contemporary human society and makes up the largest area of anthropological study. Study people’s organization.

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Participant Approach

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Studying over time and being involved in the community while making observations. Small scale communities like: foraging bands, horticultural village, pastoral nomads.

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Foraging Bands

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Small communities that subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plant food.

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Pastoral Nomads

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Societies that subsist primarily by herding domesticated animal.

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Ethnography

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Descriptive study of human society.

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Cultural Areas

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Geographical area in which societies tend to share many cultural traits

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Etic Perspective

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Physician and anthropology are outsiders looking in

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Ethnocentrism

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Using our own society as the basis for interpreting and judging other societies. Own society behaviour seems natural and correct

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What are the two viewing cultures

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1.Etic perspective: the study of using concept that were developed outside of the culture.2.Emic perspective: the study of society through the eyes of the people being studied.

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Cultural Relativism

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Study what people believe whether or not what they believe is true

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Modernity

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Through modernity order could be created out of chaos.

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Postmodernism

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Denies the possibility of acquiring the existence of true knowledge. All knowledge is seen as being a human construction that scholar must seek to deconstruct.

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What is the analytic study of religion?

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Focus on the way religion manifests itself or is expressed in a culture

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Functional Definition

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Focus on what religion does either social or psychological

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Essentialist Definition

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Looks at what is the essential nature of religion.

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Supernatural

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Refers to things that are above the natural.

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Sacred

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An attitude wherein the subjects is entitled to reverence and respect

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Animism
Beliefs in spirit beings (god, souls)
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Evolutionary Approach
Focuses on the question of when and how religion began and how it developed over time.
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Marixist
Idea that religion is a construction of those in power, designed to divert people's attention from the miseries of their lives; a way of getting people to go along with capitalist culture
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Functional Approach
Based on the functional role that religion plays in society
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Interpretive Approach
Idea that cultural systems are understood to by studying meaning; religion is a cluster of symbols that provides a charter for a culture's ideas, values, and way of life.
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Psychosocial Approach
An approach to the study of religion is concerned with the relationship between culture and personality and the connection between the society and the individual