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h. culture week 1-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anthropology | study of humans, what does it mean to be human? |
| cross-cultural comparison | every society contribute to understanding |
| cultural relativism | judge others based on their cultural standards |
| ethnocentrism | use own culture as standard |
| holistic pov | need different lenses to understand, interconnection |
| Boaz | anthropology to US |
| spatiotemporal | across time and space |
| US anthropology | cultural, everyday life |
| Europe anthropology | social structures, institutions |
| emic | insider |
| etic | outsider |
| society | how organize selves to live and build relationships |
| traditional | co-op, subsistence economy |
| modern | individualistic, market economy, ethnocentric |
| unilineal | evolve on single track towards European industrialization |
| historical particularism | Boaz, history and environment influence culture |
| culture | way of life and how make sense of the world, shared knowledge, beliefs, norms |
| appropriation | use culture as trend, stereotype, belittle |
| ethnography approach | immerse in community, observe and participate in daily life |
| mapping | meaning behind place, who has access? how? when? why? |
| informants/consultants | first to accept, ask questions to |
| rapport | build trust with community |
| positionality | how identity and social position impact research |
| reflexivity | critical of positionality |
| ethical code | do no harm, transparency, publish and thank group |
| language | symbolic, complex, rule governed |
| marked | deviant, atypical |
| unmarked | considered norm |
| linguistic ideology | beliefs and presumptions about language and speakers |
| media ideology | beliefs about what media can do |
| expressive culture | creative communication of meaning, values, beliefs, context important |
| family | small group identify as household |
| consanguineal | blood, ancestry |
| affinal | marriage, adoption |
| marriage | socially acknowledged union, regulate reproduction |