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Anthropology 1310.2
test #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where is the Dinka tribe situated? | Northern Africa |
| Xenophobia | fear of the "other" |
| Location of the Yanomamo? | South America |
| what year did field work become important in anthropology? | 1900 |
| What was the first thing discovered with Field work? | All language is complex |
| When using the word "tribal," it is a reference to: | a lack of materialistic possessions |
| Two schools of thought for what anthropology is: | 1. "a science in search of fact" 2. "an art in search of meaning" |
| "the said behind the saying" refers to: | a person's conscious awareness |
| What is reflexivity? | critically thinking about the way one thinks |
| Dialectic approach: | thesis ---> antithesis ---> synthesis |
| Culture: | is learned, shared, patterned, adaptive, and symbolic |
| institutions | complex, variable, and enduring forms of cultural practice that organize social life |
| Dualism | belief that human nature or reality as a whole, is made up of two radically different forces |
| Idealism | the human body's true nature is spiritual, not material; the body is a material impediment that frustrates the full development of the mind or spirit. |
| materialism: | People would not seek spiritual salvation of their material needs were satisfied |
| determinism: | one or more forces causes or determines complex events |
| two paradigms: | Functionalism interpretive anthropology |
| Functionalism: | every component of culture plays an important role in maintaining the harmony |
| When we are born, we are born with a "blank slate" or: | tabula rasa" |
| examples of the symbolic nature of culture: | language burying the dead |
| Development of culture: | survival cranial capacity social interaction |
| Occam's razor: | to exhaust all natural explanations before moving on to the supernatural |
| India is the birthplace of two religions, which are: | Buddhism and Hinduism |
| The holiest city in India is: | Varanassi |
| what does the idea of positivistic science involve? | participant and observant |
| What is positivism? | a view that there is a reality out there, and that there is a single, appropriate set of scientific methods for investigating that reality |
| what does it mean to go native? | to become more of a participant rather than an observer |
| what should an anthropologist do if the topic they are studying is more subjective? | they should let the people related to their topic speak more for themselves |
| situated knowledge means | knowledge shaped by the reflexivity of an ethnographer |
| name three places where facts can be made and remade | in the field, reexamination of field notes and experiences, writing about the experiences and discussing them with other anthropologist |
| the ethnographic record can best be understood as a | vast commentary on human possibility |
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