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Transcript of AN203-057 15 July 2003 Welcome… Have a seat… We will begin at 6pm.
AN203-05715 July 2003
Welcome…
Have a seat…
We will begin at 6pm
Agenda
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
• On-line Exhibition Review announcement
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
• On-line Exhibition Review announcement
• Mapping group(s)
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
• On-line Exhibition Review announcement
• Mapping group
• Films: “The Feast”
“Promises”
• More information about the film, the filmmakers, the children, and the conflict in Israel-Palestine may be found at the following URL:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/
index.html
“Promises”
“Promises”
• As I mentioned before the film, I think it is an example of ethnography that could be useful for learning some the basic vocabulary and the key concepts of cultural anthropology.
“Promises”
• As I mentioned before the film, I think it is an example of ethnography that could be useful for learning some the basic vocabulary and the key concepts of cultural anthropology.
• We will review some terms and concepts from the reading; where applicable, examples from “Promises” will illustrate.
Review
Review
• A term will appear on the screen.
Review
• A term will appear on the screen.
• For each term, you will have a few moments to gather your thoughts before the definition appears.
Review
• A term will appear on the screen.• For each term, you will have a few
moments to gather your thoughts and make a few notes before the definition appears.
• Once the definition has been explained, you will have a few more moments to think of a specific example from “Promises” that illustrates the term/concept.
Sources
• The following list is a selective list of terms encountered in Monaghan & Just, pp. 1-74.
• The definitions come from three sources:– Monaghan & Just, Social & Cultural Anthropology.
NY: Oxford, 2000.
– Podolefsky & Brown, Applying Cultural Anthropology. 6th Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
– Kottak, Cultural Anthropology. 9th Edition. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
fieldwork
fieldwork
• The hallmark of research in cultural anthropology, it usually involves long-term residence with the people being studied.
ethnography
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
colonialism
• The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.
participant observation
participant observation
• The primary research method of cultural anthropology, involving long-term observations conducted in natural settings.
serendipitous discovery
serendipitous discovery
• See Monaghan & Just, p. 19
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-33
ethnocentrism
ethnocentrism
• The assumption that one’s own group’s lifestyle, values, and patterns of adaptation are superior to all others.
emic
emic
• The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.
etic
etic
• The research strategy that emphasizes the observer’s rather than the natives’ explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.
temporal/spatial isolation
temporal/spatial isolation
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26
temporal/spatial context
temporal/spatial context
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26
acquired characteristics
acquired characteristics
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 34-35
psychophysics
psychophysics
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 36-37
classification/social categories/contestation
classification/social categories/contestation
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 42-43.
ideology
ethnic group
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.
manifest function
manifest function
• The reasons that natives offer for a custom.
latent function
latent function
• A custom’s underlying function, often unperceived by natives.
socialization
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.
social identity
cross-cultural
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
total institution
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 62-63
dualistic expectations
dualistic expectations
• See Monaghan & Just, p. 68
Film
• “The Feast”
• An ethnography by John Marshall
• About two Yanomamo tribes