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TrevithickCultAnthro
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Boas School of anthropology is also known as... | American cultural anthropology |
| Main features of Boas school of anthropology are | description of small group of people, produced and compiled as a result of participant observation; ethnography |
| Boas' Cultural anthropology replaces what previous type of anthropology? | Racial categories and historical speculation |
| Affinal | Through marriage |
| consanguine | "by the blood" |
| Main ideas of Ruth Benedict | Cultural relativism of human psychology; each culture had a "personality" and a group's morality couldn't be compared to one's own; misfits and deviance in society |
| Boas fieldwork | Inuit groups in the pacific northwest and Greenland |
| Boas main ideas | phonology in linguisitcs to better understand people; not to use historic speculation or racial categories but to focus on small "untouched" groups |
| people Boas' influenced | Mead, Kroeber, Sapir and Benedict |
| Classifactory descriptive distinction | distinction between kinds of speech when addressing people |
| Diachronic | "through time"; as in over time |
| Main ideas of Mary Douglas | social control of some factors in jokes such as a misuse of categories which have a certain role in each group; cultural theory of risk |
| Endogamy | marriage within the social unit; within tribe |
| Exogamy | marriage outside the social unit; outside the tribe |
| Derek Freeman | contested Margaret Mead after conducting his own observations in Samoa; nature vs nature |
| Heterogeneity/homogeneity | hetero:different, any heterogeneous population is heterozygous / homo: the same any homogeneous population is homozygous |
| heterozygosity/homozygosity | having two different alleles of the same gene / having two identical alleles of the same gene |
| Hybrid | hybrid: anything that is abstractly heterogeneous |
| Uses of hybridity | it can be used as a political strategy; hybrid vigor can create more fertility in the hybrid than the parents |
| Hybridity in Mexican political history | mestizaje; the mix of inter-racial values of Indigenous and European identities |
| Hybridity cycle | The cycle of how long it takes before a hybrid is recognized in its own right |
| Alfred Kroeber Main ideas | kinship terminology; linguistics approach to languages asking what does the language say about the culture; symbolic systems |
| Claude Levi-Strauss Main ideas | no original version of myth exists and all versions can be considered official when studying them; asking what the myth means; myths allow people to deal with problems arising from cultural ideas; understanding relationships and how they operate |
| Claude Levi-Strauss Methodology | "armchair anthropologist"; "the father of structuralism" How does language function? |
| Lineage/sub-lineage | family ancestry / when segmentation occurs and part of the family is part of its own sub-lineage |
| Margaret Mead Fieldwork | Tau Island, Samoa; sexual development of girls |
| Margaret Mead Main ideas | Ethnographic determinism, |
| Margaret Mead influence | Mead was Boasian. she had her work restudied by Freeman and her ideas of virginity followed by Homes and her work on premarital sexuality by Shor. Her work was defended by Weiner |
| Ethnographic methodology | description of a small group of people produced and written as a result of fieldwork |
| Ethnologic methodology | compares and contrasts the ethnography results of different cultures |
| Historical methodology | examines historical events in order to create explanations that are valid using comparisons to other events |
| Melanesia | New Guniea and the Trobriands; weaker chiefs than polynesia |
| Milamala festival | time of relaxed morality between tribes for sexual adventures; during this time everyone's yam houses will be filled; more like 'harvest festival' |
| Mortuary exchange | after death, soul goes to Tuma by canoe, soul meets Topileta who wants some valuables, no ethical qualification to go to Tuma and sometime later returns into a womb |
| Polynesia | Tonga, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii; chiefs stronger here than in Melanesia |
| psychic unity of mankind | all people can relate to each other cognitively and emotionally |
| Sapir-Whorf hypothesis | that your language is limiting your cognitive process because you can only think as well as your language allows you to; based off bad Hopi Indian info; strong version involves linguistic determinism, weak version is language influences your culture |
| stratification, social types | categorization of people based on socio-economic conditions; castes, classes, social rank etc |
| synchronic | "at the same time" |
| Belief system of the Trobriands | magic; death is never "accidental and usually due to someone using magic; reincarnation through the Baloma (soul) which would swim into the womb; the dead would go to the Island of Tuma (see prev card) |
| Trobriand geographic location | Eastern part of Papua New Guinea which is in Melanesia |
| Trobriands subsistence | horticultural society that grows yams which are kept in a yam house, so matrilienal subclan will have a man farm yams for his sister's house |
| Trobriands Social structure | matrilienal, relaxed sexual culture for young unmarried people, only chiefs can marry polygynously, ceremonies such as Kula and Milamala festival |
| Annette Weiner | Influenced by Malinowski; did fieldwork in Trobriands; defended Margaret Mead from critique by Freeman |
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