agenda review –monaghan & just –podolefsky & brown –films –mapping

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.

M & J


• Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists.

M & J



• Chapter Two focused on culture.

M & J



• Chapter Two focused on culture.

• Chapter Three focused on society.

M & J

• We discussed definitions of key vocabulary.

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

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


• Unexpected, unplanned discovery.


• Unexpected, unplanned discovery.

• See Monaghan & Just, p. 19 for details.

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.



• 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

ethnocentrism

• The assumption that one’s own group’s lifestyle, values, and patterns of adaptation are superior to all others.

emic

• The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.

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.


• Historical details that locate an ethnography within time and space.

• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26 for more details.

temporal/spatial isolation

temporal/spatial isolation

• The lack of temporal/spatial context.

acquired characteristics


• Any aspect of an individual that has not been inherited through biological means.


• 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

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.



• Social categories result from the classification of people within a society.




• Contestation is a means of resisting the authorities who name the social categories.




• Contestation is a means of resisting the authorities who name the social categories.

• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 42-43 for details.

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.

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

• An organization that governs almost every facet of a person’s life.

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.


• 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

Culture & Fieldwork

• Body Ritual Among the Nacerima by Horace Miller

Culture & Fieldwork


• Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape by Bruce Bower

Culture & Fieldwork



• Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS by Claire E. Sterk

Culture & Fieldwork




• Crack in Spanish Harlem by Philippe Bourgois

Culture & Fieldwork




• Crack in Spanish Harlem by Philippe Bourgois• Corporate Anthropologists by Jennifer J. Laabs

Culture & Communication


• Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan


• Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan• To Give Up on Words: Silence in Western Apache

Culture by Keith H. Basso



Culture by Keith H. Basso• A Cultural Approach to Male-Female

Miscommunication by Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth Borker



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

Culture & Food

• Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health by Elizabeth D. Whitaker

Culture & Food


• Chinese Table Manners: You are How you Eat by Eugene Cooper

Culture & Food


• 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



• 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

Culture & Race

• Race Without Color by Jared Diamond

Culture & Race


• Official Statement on Race by the AAA

Culture & Race



• White Priviledge: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

Culture & Race



• 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

Films

• Saudi Arabia

• Promises

• The Feast

Mapping

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