Language and Communication
Anthropology of Education
Religion and Spirituality
Anthropology Makes a Difference
Book Review Presentations & *Mystery Category*
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The idea that all languages are equally good at expressing and allowing for abstract thought.
What the principle of Linguistic Relativity?
100
This is the 1954 landmark case that deemed public institutions that were “separate but equal” unconstitutional. It greatly affected educational institutions and resulted in a disparity in the quality of education afforded to students.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
100
This is the melding of two or more religions, often characterized by conquest or contact.
What is religious syncretism?
100
These organizations are not generally associated with a government and advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples and other groups.
What are non governmental organizations?
100
In "Learning Capitalist Culture Deep in the Heart of Tejas" anthropologist Doug Foley examines these as techniques students use to manipulate teachers in order to get the best grades for the least amount of work.
What are "making out games"?
200
The system of combining words into meaning.
What is syntax?
200
Social assets that assist one in achieving social mobility; educational or intellectual/cultural assets. This accumulated cultural knowledge equates to power and status.
What is cultural capital?
200
As noted in “Understanding Islam,” within its mainstream traditions, Islam teaches all of the following except: piety. jihad. virtue. tolerance.
What is jihad?
200
This is a particular context in which forensic anthropologists can help with humanitarian efforts (as cited in Nanda & Warms).
What is working to identify people who died crossing the US - Mexico border, identifying victims of political violence, as in Guatemala's civil war, or identifying victims of 9/11?
200
*MYSTERY CATEGORY*: Behavior and symbols that are learned, transmitted, practiced, and reproduced. A method of adapting to the environment that gives meaning to life.
What is culture?
300
It examines: The principle of Linguistic Relativity The relationship between languages/dialects and social hierarchies. How languages are constantly changing; how ‘new’ languages arise.
What is sociolinguistics?
300
This is the idea that some schools subtract resources from some students while providing them to others.
What is the concept of subtractive schooling?
300
These spiritual traditions can be understood as “lived,” practiced, and of and for the people. They can take place in communities, the street, or homes and are not always connected to organized religion.
What is popular religion?
300
This is the name of the group who lived on Diego Garcia island. Anthropologist David Vine's ethnography about their lives and eviction by the U.S. and British governments brought attention to the violation of rights of these indigenous peoples and illustrates how anthropological research and anthropologists can help indigenous populations to get due compensation for their displacement and suffering.
Who are the Chagossians?
300
This is the way that race relations between Mexicano and Anglo football players played out in North Town, according to anthropologist Doug Foley in "Learning Capitalist Culture."
What is while racial tensions are not as apparent on the field, they play out off the field?
400
This includes: no native speakers, no written form, and absorption by another form of the language.
What are the reasons why a language may disappear?
400
The technique used by Mrs. Elliot in "A Class Divided" to teach her students about the effects of racism is an example of this.
What is pedagogy?
400
These are four of the six FUNCTIONS of religion as understood by anthropologists.
What are: represents a search for order, meaning, and offers means of survival, reduces anxiety and increases control, promotes group cohesion (community) and a sense of belonging, reinforces or modifies the social order, works as a rallying point for social and economic protest, and solidifies identities (religious, ethnic, gender, national, etc.).
400
Anthropologists work to give populations the opportunity to articulate their own histories. This is the concept used by anthropologists that has "broadened the public's understanding of diverse cultures" by challenging perceptions about "primative" groups and viewing them as "other." Rather, with this concept the West's view of the "other" has moved towards seeing other people and their experiences as part of the human family (Nanda & Warms 339).
What is cultural relativism?
400
In "They All Want Magic" De la Portilla states that healers draw their power from these four niveles or levels.
What are material, spiritual, mental, emotional?
500
This is one of the most significant reasons why language is so vital to the study of culture.
What is language is the very means by which culture is transmitted across space and time? *(And culture is key to adaptability and hence human survival.)
500
The idea that schools are mechanisms for perpetuating social inequalities and reproducing the social order.
What is social reproduction theory?
500
These are the four ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES to the study of religion and spirituality discussed in class.
What are it is holistic--interacts with other aspects of social life (socioeconomics, gender, race, identity, etc.), it is historical--situated in particular historical circumstances and experiences, anthropology is not concerned with the validity of any religious or spiritual practice or belief, but rather, its effects on its practitioners, and it is representative of the social world.
500
This is an area that anthropologists work to bring attention to and show how power and social status intersect. Anthropologist Melissa Checker's ethnography of an African American community called Hyde Park near Augusta Georgia illustrates how racism shapes this social construct and how community response to pollution is dependent on racial stratification.
What is the environment?
500
*MYSTERY CATEGORY* This is the concept within cultural anthropology that describes processes of exclusion. It is the process through which a dominant group defines a subordinate group into existence and views them as different. Social inequalities result when the group or individual is treated as an ‘object’ by another group. This social exclusion allows people to break the moral rules of social relationships (i.e. slavery, genocide).
What is "othering" or "to other"?
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