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PsychAnth Midterm
Psychological Anthropology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anthropology | study of human culture |
| culture | system of symbols that give meaning |
| 4 components of Anthropology | 1.cultural 2.physical 3.archeological 4.linguistics |
| goal of anthropology | understanding |
| phenomenology | study of experience |
| phoenetics | scientific system of language |
| phoenem | minimal unit of sound in a language that carries meaning |
| emic | insider pt of view (anth study this) |
| etic | outsider pt of view |
| 4 components of acedemic psychology | 1.cognition 2.perception 3.motivation 4.personality |
| Wilhelm Windt | psychology of 'primitive' man - used anthropology - intellectual endowment was equal btwn 'prim' and 'civilized' cultures |
| william james | raised point westerners were equally primitive to non-westerners |
| emile durkheim | sociologist - first studies on suicide - believed 'primitive' ppl were inferior |
| sir james frazier | armchair anthropologist - said primitive man reason came from false premis |
| franz boaz | eskimos. thought 'primitive cognition' was stupid. found they had same intellect. thought others were racist. pissed him off. |
| eugenics | getting rid of ppl with undesireable characteristics |
| perception | process by which an individual obtains information. is culturally affected |
| bronislaw malinowski | need->institution or need->behavior. did not consider culture. functionalism. |
| functionalism | all parts of society functions as part of the whole. |
| malinowski's 4 imperitives of societies | 1.economics 2.social control 3.education 4.politics |
| personality | persistant characteristics of an individual |
| melanie klein | developed child psychology & play therapy. felt key relationship in family was w/ mother, not w/ father as F suggests. |
| julia kristiva | bringing body back into study of mind.body as manifestaion of psychological process. cultural variations in these processes. theory of abjection |
| theory of abjection | things from our body that we make disgusting. also do in society (women/disables) |
| helene cixous | senses in the body. overcome logocentrism & tap into other senses |
| luce irigavay | current system of pure visual emphasis leavesno place for women. criticized F b/c he defined women in terms of how they related to men... & F put too much emphasis on the penis |
| jaques lacan | the notion of self is a product of the unconscious. chains of metaphors/signs/symbols really have no meaning. we assign meaning as needed. |
| erik ericson | stages of development |
| 8 theories of psych anth | 1.configurationism 2.basic/modal personality 3.national character 4.cross cultural 5.cognitive 6.'themind' 7.symbols 8.post-modernism |
| configurationist | culture resembles personality. searching for patterns in psychology & culture. |
| basic/modal personality | personality is created through primary institutions... lead to 2ndary institutions...modal is most common personality type i.e. the one determined by the culture |
| national character | stereotyping culture. (swaddling theory - BS) |
| cross culture | big database of cultural information. HRAF. statistical way of looking at culture. |
| HRAF | human relations area file |
| cognitive anth | 70's. ways humans mentally make categories. culture is like a cookbook (not true) |
| the mind | claude levis strauss. binary oppositions. the innate structure of the mind. |
| symbolic anthropology | every culture has rituals... symbols play major role in rituals |
| post modernism | globalization, |
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