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anthro final
final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anthropological core approach | focus on lived experience; what people do not just say |
| understanding a culture's belief, values, and practices within its own context | cultural relativism |
| studying cultures as integrated systems | holism |
| process where researchers examine own beliefs and awareness of their role in shaping research context and outcomes | reflexivity |
| global flows of people, goods, ideas | globalization |
| market based systems, reduced state control | neoliberalism |
| land treated as empty, colonial justification | terra nullius |
| ethnographic film. participant observation, collaborative filmmaking | methods in visual anthropology |
| globalization produces | inequality. cultural transformation, displacement |
| Appadurai's "Scapes" | ethno, techno, finance, media, ideo |
| movement of people across the world | ethnoscapes |
| cross border impact of technology | technoscapes |
| rapid movement of money globally | financescapes |
| international media's global influence | meidascapes |
| spread of ideas, symbols, and narratives | ideoscapes |
| impact of indigenous people | loss of land, shift to cash economies, cultural disruption, new opportunities, new inequalities |
| thought religion was social glue; rituals reinforce group unity; collective effervescence | Emile Durkheim |
| though religion masks inequality; maintains social order | Karl Marx |
| though religion began with animism (evolutionist) | E.B Tylor |
| spirits in nature | animism |
| impersonal forces | animatism |
| symbolic group identity | totemism |
| rites of passage according to victor turner | separation, liminality, reincorporation |
| shamans, priests, prophets/diviners | religious specialists |
| what is more specific and goal oriented | magic |
| what is a broader belief system | religion |
| socially defined physical differences | race |
| shared culture | ethnicity |
| new identities forming | ethnogenesis |
| how do globalization and economy connect | cash economies disrupt traditional values |
| how do globalization and religion connect | religious revival or transformation |
| how do media and race connect | reinforces stereotypes and ideologies |
| how do film and power connect | early film=colonial authority, modern film=shared authority |
| how do anthropology and colonialism connect | discipline evolving toward ethical awareness |
| reciprocity exchange system | mutual exchange |
| redistribution exchange system | centralized system |
| market exchange system | supply and demand |