Beyond Categories:
Religion, Gender, Race
Religion, Gender, Race
According to Garcia, _____ is both socially constructed and is “real” at the same time
Race
"A set of tastes, embodied dispositions, habits, and ways of thinking and behaving that we acquire as part of our socialization" - This is Bourdieu's concept of ______
Habitus
Per Carol Adams, human animals often work very hard to deny the __________ of non-human animals
Subjectivity
Foucault argues that modern forms of power operates through _____.
Discipline
Both Malinowski and Boas shifted the discipline to fieldwork-based research and away from _______
armchair anthropology
According to Gabrielle Blair, what are men responsible for?
Unwanted Pregnancies
According to Marx: the difference between the lower class and the ruling class is the ownership of ________
The means of production
Anna Tsing have pointed to how we center our worlds around humans and human experiences, often missing the experiences of non-human animals and the natural world, which we are indelibly tied up with. This is critique of _________
Anthropocentrism
According to Gramsci, "Cultural ____" refers to how the ideas of the ruling classes become the “commonsense” ideas of the subordinated classes via civil society (media, schools, churches, etc.)
Hegemony
On which island did Clifford Geertz conduct his study, and which event did he focus on
Bali & Cockfight
Bucar describes “Protestant ___” as the assumption that one form of Christianity is normative.
Privilege
According to Mauss - what are the three social obligations around giftgiving?
to give; to receive; to reciprocate
The belief that one can eat cows and chickens but should not eat squirrels or cats, is an example of ______.
Food ideologies
Contemporary anthropologists not only study so-called “exotic” others in far-away places, but also people in positions of power within their own Western societies. What term did Laura Nader use to describe this ethnographic approach?
"Studying up"
In a village, children belong to the wife’s family line, and property is passed down through daughters rather than sons.
Matrilineality
Durkheim uses this term to describe the intense shared emotional energy produced in group rituals.
Collective Effervescence
What is the term that Marx uses to describe the way in which goods are perceived as detached from the labor and social relations that produced them?
Commodity Fetishism
During the Ghanaian harvest festival, what is the purpose of the “ban on drumming”?
To create the right sonic conditions for deities
Schonberg and Bourgois’s informants indicated that they felt shame and often saw themselves as primarily responsible for their addiction and poverty. Which concept from Pierre Bourdieu do the authors use to explain this system in which people come to see their suffering as commonsensical and as the result of their own choices and character?
Symbolic violence
When Renato Rosaldo encountered headhunting, he could not understand it at all. Yet, as an anthropologist, he tried to suspend his judgment and understand the practice within its own cultural context rather than from his own cultural point of view. This approach is an example of _____.