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Transcript of Agenda Review –Monaghan & Just –Podolefsky & Brown –Films –Mapping.
M & J
• By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text.
• Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists.
M & J
• By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text.
• Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists.
• Chapter Two focused on culture.
M & J
• By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text.
• Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists.
• Chapter Two focused on culture.
• Chapter Three focused on society.
M & J
• We discussed definitions of key vocabulary.
• We applied our knowledge of these terms by identifying and discussing examples from the film, “Promises.”
M & J
• We discussed definitions of key vocabulary.• We applied our knowledge of these terms
by identifying and discussing examples from the film, “Promises.”
• I will quickly run through these terms for the sake of review… because we have already discussed them in some detail, you should save your questions for office hours.
fieldwork
• The hallmark of research in cultural anthropology, it usually involves long-term residence with the people being studied.
ethnography
• The intensive and systematic description of a particular society; ethnographic information is usually collected through the method of long-term participant-observation fieldwork.
colonialism
• The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.
participant observation
• The primary research method of cultural anthropology, involving long-term observations conducted in natural settings.
serendipitous discovery
• Unexpected, unplanned discovery.
• See Monaghan & Just, p. 19 for details.
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues
• The ethnographic method contains many potential pitfalls.
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues
• The ethnographic method contains many potential pitfalls.
• Some of these pitfalls are epistemological in nature, and some are ethical in nature.
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues
• The ethnographic method contains many potential pitfalls.
• Some of these pitfalls are epistemological in nature, and some are ethical in nature.
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-33 for further details and specific examples.
ethnocentrism
• The assumption that one’s own group’s lifestyle, values, and patterns of adaptation are superior to all others.
etic
• The research strategy that emphasizes the observer’s rather than the natives’ explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.
temporal/spatial context
• Historical details that locate an ethnography within time and space.
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26 for more details.
acquired characteristics
• Any aspect of an individual that has not been inherited through biological means.
acquired characteristics
• Any aspect of an individual that has not been inherited through biological means.
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 34-35 for further details, specific examples, and discussion of the importance of this concept within cultural anthropology.
psychophysics
• A field of study that focused on the study of how the characteristics of the observer determined the perception of physical phenomena.
psychophysics
• A field of study that focused on the study of how the characteristics of the observer determined the perception of physical phenomena.
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 36-37.
classification/social categories/contestation
• Classification is the labeling and value-judging of different categories.
classification/social categories/contestation
• Classification is the labeling and value-judging of different categories.
• Social categories result from the classification of people within a society.
classification/social categories/contestation
• Classification is the labeling and value-judging of different categories.
• Social categories result from the classification of people within a society.
• Contestation is a means of resisting the authorities who name the social categories.
classification/social categories/contestation
• Classification is the labeling and value-judging of different categories.
• Social categories result from the classification of people within a society.
• Contestation is a means of resisting the authorities who name the social categories.
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 42-43 for details.
ethnic group
• A group of people within larger society with a distinct cultural or historical identity; ethnicity is a common mechanism of social separation in complex, heterogeneous societies.
socialization
• The development, through the influence of parents and others, of patterns of thought and behavior in children that conform to beliefs and values of a particular culture.
cross-cultural
• A standard form of anthropological analysis using the comparison of traditions and practices from different societies; cross-cultural research explores cultural variations by using ethnographic data from many societies.
total institution
• An organization that governs almost every facet of a person’s life.
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 62-63 for details.
dualistic expectations
• Preconceived notions that precipitate categorization of societies or peoples strictly in terms of binary opposition.
dualistic expectations
• Preconceived notions that precipitate categorization of societies or peoples strictly in terms of binary opposition.
• See Monaghan & Just, p. 68.
P & B
• We have not discussed this text very thoroughly, but we have already covered the basics for two of its main themes:
P & B
• We have not discussed this text very thoroughly, but we have already covered the basics for two of its main themes:– Fieldwork
P & B
• We have not discussed this text very thoroughly, but we have already covered the basics for two of its main themes:– Fieldwork– Culture
P & B
• We have not discussed this text very thoroughly, but we have already covered the basics for two of its main themes:– Fieldwork– Culture
• What remains to be done is to situate the individual case studies from the reader within the framework that we have already created.
Culture & Fieldwork
• Body Ritual Among the Nacerima by Horace Miller
• Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape by Bruce Bower
Culture & Fieldwork
• Body Ritual Among the Nacerima by Horace Miller
• Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape by Bruce Bower
• Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS by Claire E. Sterk
Culture & Fieldwork
• Body Ritual Among the Nacerima by Horace Miller
• Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape by Bruce Bower
• Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS by Claire E. Sterk
• Crack in Spanish Harlem by Philippe Bourgois
Culture & Fieldwork
• Body Ritual Among the Nacerima by Horace Miller
• Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape by Bruce Bower
• Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS by Claire E. Sterk
• Crack in Spanish Harlem by Philippe Bourgois• Corporate Anthropologists by Jennifer J. Laabs
Culture & Communication
• Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan• To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache
Culture by Keith H. Basso
Culture & Communication
• Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan• To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache
Culture by Keith H. Basso• A Cultural Approach to Male-Female
Miscommunication by Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth Borker
Culture & Communication
• Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan• To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache
Culture by Keith H. Basso• A Cultural Approach to Male-Female
Miscommunication by Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth Borker
• Suite for Ebony and Phonics by John R. Rickford
Culture & Food
• Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health by Elizabeth D. Whitaker
• Chinese Table Manners: You are How you Eat by Eugene Cooper
Culture & Food
• Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health by Elizabeth D. Whitaker
• Chinese Table Manners: You are How you Eat by Eugene Cooper
• Culture and the Evolution of Obesity by Peter J. Brown
Culture & Agriculture
• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared Diamond
• The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution by Gerald F. Murray
Culture & Agriculture
• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared Diamond
• The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution by Gerald F. Murray
• Two Rights Make a Wrong: Indigenous Peoples Versus Environmental Protection Agencies by Richard Reed
Culture & Race
• Race Without Color by Jared Diamond
• Official Statement on Race by the AAA
• White Priviledge: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Culture & Race
• Race Without Color by Jared Diamond
• Official Statement on Race by the AAA
• White Priviledge: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• Of Kwanza, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education by Deborah Freedman Lustig