Week 4 Flashcards
What are beliefs?
They are a set of ideas that describe how we view the world. From what is natural or normal to what is supernatural or abnormal
How do religious worldviews understand beliefs and experiences?
They understand beliefs and experiences as normal, logical, and rational
What is othering?
It is a view that those whose beliefs differ from one’s own, or the belief of the dominant culture
What informs our beliefs?
The individual self and our relationships inform our beliefs as they shape our experiences of the world
What is holism?
Holism is a theory that describes that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the whole, or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts.
What does holism help anthropologists accomplish?
It allows them to fully explore the complexity culture through the observation of human-environment interactions, language, politics, economics, etc
What is a nationalized society?
It is a society that is based on political organization through modern institutions of citizenship, political democracy, and processes of democratization of control of productive resources
What is external colonialism?
It is the expropriation of fragments of indigenous worlds, animals, plants and human beings by a distant power
The exploitation of land and resources in order to build wealth and privilege for the colonizers
What is internal colonialism?
It is the biopolitical and geopolitical management of people, land, flora and fauna within the “domestic” borders of the imperial nation
The management of people and land within the country that has been colonized through the use of structural and interpersonal relations
What is settler colonialism
It is a mixture of both external and internal colonialism as there is no spatial separation between the metropole (parent state) and the colony
How has settler colonialism affected our relationship with the land?
Strains to destroy or assimilate the Native in order to erase them from the land
Conflicting messages about Indigenous peoples (all Indians are dead, located far away on reservations, contemporary indigenous people are less indigenous than prior generations, etc.)
Settlers are diverse, not just of white European descent, and include people of colour, even from other colonial contexts. This tightly wound set of conditions and racialized, globalized relations exponentially complicates what is meant by decolonization, and by solidarity, against settler colonial forces
What is a key point of settler colonialism?
That is is a structure that remakes land into property and human relationships to land into the relationship of the owner to his property
How does culture inform our relationship to the environment?
Culture informs us of our relationship to the environment as it provides insight into the key components of the environment crisis by determining the reasons behind choices various groups of humans make and bridging the gap between social and natural sciences and studying contradictions between cultural universals
What is a multi-species ehnography?
It is an approach to understanding world making, or life, as a process of becoming through assemblages of humans, other species, and things
What is an assemblage?
It is a complex and dynamic process whereupon the collective’s properties exceed their constitutive elements
