Theories
This concept developed by Pierre Bourdieu describes how social structures become embodied in individuals through repeated practice, shaping tastes, behaviors, and perceptions in ways that reproduce social inequalities.
habitus
What is the primary method of data collection in anthropology
participant observation: involves researchers immersing themselves in a group’s daily life to develop a close, firsthand understanding of its members and practices. Through intensive engagement within a cultural environment, often over an extended period of time, researchers gain familiarity with a particular community, such as a religious, occupational, or youth group.
The film “Searching for Maura” follows the reclamation of the remains of Maura, a young Igorot woman who was put on display and died at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, from this institution.
The Smithsonian Institution’s United States National Museum
Our lectures take place in this building
Cantor Film Center
This French philosopher introduced the concept of “biopower” to describe the ways modern states regulate populations through the management of bodies, health, life processes, and the administration of human life itself.
Michel Foucault
Anne Allison draws on which philosopher’s concept to show how the obento conditions Japanese children and mothers to internalize norms and expectations of proper behavior, gender, and discipline?
Louis Althusser's concept of the Ideological State Apparatus
Timothy Mitchell’s article “The World as Exhibition” uses this historical event to examine how colonialism and modernity were staged through displays, spectacles, and representations of non-Western societies, contributing to the construction of the “Orient.”
The 1889 World Exhibition in Paris
Professor Merrifield got her Phd from this institution?
Yale
This approach refers to the study of things as they are apprehended by our senses and as they appear in our lived experiences.
phenomenology
This anthropologist argues for “ethnographic refusal” as a method of withholding certain forms of knowledge from colonial modes of inquiry in her article “On Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity, Voice, and Colonial Citizenship.”
Audra Simpson
This concept from Michel-Rolph Trouillot describes the way Western thought historically positioned non-Western peoples as “savages” in contrast to the civilized West, creating a conceptual space that justified colonial domination.
the savage slot
Sydney did an internship last summer at which institution
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
This term from Carmen Alvaro Jarrin's article "Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty: Eugenics, Aesthetic Hierarchies and Plastic Surgery in Brazil" refers to the way certain physical features are valued more highly than others, creating a ranking system of bodies that is often shaped by histories of race, colonialism, and class inequality.
aesthetic hierarchies
What does Marcel Mauss argue in his essay "Techniques of the Body"
"Techniques of the Body" argues that human bodily actions are not purely natural but are culturally learned "techniques" shaped by social training and habit.
This anthropological concept, developed by what anthropologist, refers to a description of human social action that explains not just physical behaviors, but also their cultural meaning and context as interpreted by the actors themselves?
thick description, Clifford Geertz
Where did Sydney get her undergraduate degree?
Dartmouth College
This concept developed by Antonio Gramsci refers to the way dominant groups maintain power not only through force, but by shaping cultural norms, beliefs, and values so that their rule appears natural and is accepted by society.
hegemony
According to Marcel Mauss, this term describes the way individuals adopt bodily techniques and social behaviors by imitating those viewed as prestigious or authoritative within a culture.
prestigious imitation
This German sociologist argued in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism that Protestant values helped shape the development of modern capitalism by promoting discipline, hard work, and economic success as moral virtues.
Max Weber
What is Sydney's dissertation topic?
My project explores how Kumeyaay people use tukuk (Bird), a traditional song and dance form, to sustain a shared sense of nationhood, belonging, and identity in the face of political borders, settler colonial disruption, and changing tribal citizenship laws.