All class readings/discussions
We practice performative aspects of gender and learn the “appropriate” thinking and behaviors associated with our assignments as boys and girls. What is it?
Gender acquisition
Section of general anthropology and urban studies. It is a reflection of the contemporary rapid world of urbanization.
Urban Anthropology
The view that while cultures differ, they are not better or worse than one another. It suggests that it is inappropriate to use outside standards to judge behavior in a given society; such behavior should be evaluated in the context of the culture in which it occurs.
Cultural relativism
Who is the author of the idea that analyzing the whole of a culture as well as its parts allow someone to develop a thick description detailing mental process and reasoning of people.
Clifford Geertz
Ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea by Bronisław Malinowski
Kula Ring
Relations between former colonial powers and former colonies, which perpetuate to some degree the domination and exploitation that existed under colonialism
Neo-colonialism
The most important method by which cultural anthropologists gather data to answer their research questions.
Fieldwork
Form of urban redevelopment characterized by the renovation or reconstruction of buildings and infrastructure
Gentrification
The knowledge and experience individuals acquired through socialization, which enables successful interaction in their social world.
Cultural capital
State the name of the text which serves as an ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa, and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamic world. The fieldwork takes place in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria.
Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City
These relationships are characterized by a mutual understanding where insults can be exchanged without consequences, fostering a unique bond that blends respect with playful antagonism
Joking relationships
A form of exchange when one party seeks to benefit at the expense of the other.
Negative reciprocity
The ruling class may shape them to justify and perpetuate the existing social and economic order
ideologies
Approaches taken among theorists after the modernity period to analyze texts and narratives
Deconstruction
Employing the method of thick description Geertz inscribes the phenomenon of cockfighting into a detailed context, envisaging it as a cultural phenomenon that reveals the non-obvious hierarchies that pervade the entire society. What is this ethnography?
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
The process by which people incorporate biologically the social and material world in which they live. A person knows, feels, and thinks about the social world through the body
Embodiment
What was before ethnography?
Armchair anthropology
Corresponding with explorers and missionaries
Quizzing colonial officials
Examining artifacts and skulls
This approach in anthropology allows understanding humankind in terms of the dynamic interrelationships of all aspects of human existence.
Holism or holistic approach
illusory perceptions that commodities have value on itself
commodity fetishism
In his seminal book, Evans-Pritchard demonstrated that magic is an integral part of religion and culture used to explain events that cannot otherwise be understood or controlled among the The Zande of South Sudan.
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande
The scattering of a group of people who have left their original homeland and now live in various locations
Diaspora
A second type of ritual which is designed to bring a community together, often following a period of crisis
rite of intensification
When power is shifted from a central authority and distributes it among the population
Governmentality
These theorists argue that ethics should be only the subject matter of an individual and not a collective one. Morality should also be decided by an individual and social relations should not intervene with morality
Postmodernism
State the ethnographer who has focused on the ethnographic research of the crack dealers and their families revealed the structural barriers that marginalized the minority group of Puerto Ricans, and how their violent street culture further isolated them from mainstream society
Philippe Bourgois