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Unit 3 Flashcards

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Communitas

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Turner; refers to the ritual fusion of individuals into a collective identity

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Kaiten-Zushi

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Bestor; conveyor belt sushi

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Epistemological exposition

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thinking about the way we think

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Anti-structure

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Turner; side of culture expressed through ritual chaos; both liminality and communitas are components of anti-structure

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Globilization

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Bestor; McDonaldization

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Hermeuntics

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study of symbols

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Habitus

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Bourdieu; our largely unconscious habitual ways of doing things; not neutral, they’re positioned/ situated with culture

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Panopticon

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Foucault; the gaze; living in a surveillance culture; when we think we’re being watched, we behave better/ put on a show

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Banality of evil

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Arendt; every day acts of violence that are “ordinary” because we don’t see them and have no context for them; the Germans disappearing during WWII

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Levi-Strauss on incest taboo

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alliance theory

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Adjudication of desire

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Valentine; desires are appropriate to our culture [borrowed from Foucault]; even privately, we conduct ourselves in relation to our culture

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Lininoidal/ liminoidal comminuties

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Turner; ritual fusion of individuals into a collective identity; ex: middle part of the rite of passage

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Searching for children

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Abu-Lughod; biological clock and how we address wanting to have babies [pray, light a candle, see the doctor]

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Thick description

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Geertz; important symbols and actions have many layers of meaning and the anthropologist must attempt to explain each layer; the anthropologist must describe in full detail that which they might not understand because someone else might be able to make sense of it later so long as all the details are present

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Deep play

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Geertz; why an activity is more important culturally than others; what the activity represents on a larger-scale than what is face-value; cockfights to the Balinese

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-scapes

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Appadurai; framework for exploring the flows and relationships across five global discussions; building blocks of the imagined world

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Ethnoscapes

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Appadurai; landscape of a person; appearance; it’s continually changing

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Mediascapes

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Appadurai; distribution of info [ads, news, tv, documents, etc.]; find something that suits us and find a community that we would have never had access to before [documents on Netflix]; influence

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Technoscapes

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Appadurai; technology and its move across previously impervious “borders;” probably the most powerful -scape

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Financialscape

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Appadurai; distribution of global capital; [debt, financial collapse, unpaid internships]; we can’t escape it

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Ideoscapes

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Appadurai; interconnectedness of images, ideas and terms; [democracy, welfare, rights]; react to term rather than reality [words possess given power]

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Doxa

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Bourdieu; what we as part of a culture/society consider self-evident

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Hegemony

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Gramsci; common sense; hard work will be rewarded but not always

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Symbolic anthropology

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concerned with studying the process by which people give meaning to their world and how this world is expressed in cultural symbols; Geertz, Turner and Douglas

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Pre-modernism

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meaning is possessed by authority and the

individual is dominated by tradition

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Modernism

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rejection of tradition and authority in favor of reason and natural science; linear conception of history — a history of a “real” or objectified world

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Postmodernism

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merging of subject and object – questioning the possibility of impartiality, objectivity, or authoritative knowledge; an avoidance of or challenge to binarisms and dualisms

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The Ilongot

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head-hunters of the Philippines; studied by Rosaldo

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Multivocality

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Turner; the fact that a single symbol can represent many things

30
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Mudyi tree

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Turner; the Ndembu people; milk tree and symbol of Ndembu society

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