Fieldwork
Nacierma
Evolution
Language
Enculturation
100
Ethnocentrism
What is the belief that one's own cultural beliefs and practices are the only proper ones?
100
Barrel Model
What is an integrated and dynamic system of adaptation that responds to a combination of internal (economic, social, and ideological) and external factors (environmental, climatic) with functional relationships among the economic base (infra), the social organization (social) and the ideology (super)?
100
John Bowley's assertion that human beings need attachment.
What is the Attachment Theory?
100
Phonemes
What are the smallest units of sound that make a difference in meaning? (Ex: pul vs. phul)
100
Susan Schaller and the Man Without Words
What are words to us?
200
Cultural Relativism
To * suspend judgment * understand others in their terms * look back on own culture
200
History of "Whatever"
-pre 1960s: “whatever. That’s what I meant.” -Late 60s: “I don’t care. Whatever.” -1990s: MTV Generation- the indifferent “Meh.” -Late 90s- present: “Whatever. I’ll do what I want.”
200
We came down from the trees. We survived. How?
- we sang - we asked questions - we worked together - and we ran…. - slowly.
200
Morphemes
What are the smallest units of sound that have a meaning? (Dog*s) (Kiss*ed)
200
Enculturation
What is the process by which culture is passed along?
300
The Ethnographer's Toolkit
What are Communication, Empathy, and Thoughtfulness?
300
Vicious Cycle of Whatever (Paradox of Choice)
Whatever----> Search for self ----> Defend/ Celebrate self----> fragmentation-----> Complexity--->loss of certainty, meaning, and power
300
Early humans caught game/prey by...
What is Persistence Hunting?
300
Kinesics
What is the study of Body Language?
300
Metacommunication
What is what may be inferred from or implied by a message?
400
Ethnography
What is the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures?
400
Two Slides (Charles Taylor): Search for the authentic self.
1. “self-centered modes of self-fulfilment” outcome: disengagement 2. “negation of all horizons of significance” (we all look on different horizons, different values and beliefs, always trying to find meanings and questioning self) Outcome: fragmentation
400
Some modern humans still embody this skill, including...
Who are the Tarahumara?
400
Proxemics
What is the study of spacing?
400
Genderlects
What is the tension of male-female communication? (Deborah Tannen)
500
The logic, socio-logic, and eco-logic of witchcraft.
-Answers "Why Me?" -maintains morality -heals relationships -helps regulate optimal village size
500
Holism
What is bringing all levels of culture together and examining it as a whole; the big picture; and finding connections?
500
Symbiosis
What is to have a symbiotic, or mutually beneficial, relationship with other animals?
500
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
What is the idea that language shapes our thoughts and actions?
500
Dependence vs. Independence Training
What is how we raise the children of our society?
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