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
Disagreements between individuals, groups, cultures or societies may result from differences in interests, values or actions.
Conflict
The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group. The transmission of culture from one generation to the next.
Enculturation
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
Autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory.
State
Construction of membership through differing practices (nation state, citizenship, bounded ethnic groups)
Politics of Exclusion
The tendency towards increasing global interconnections in culture, economy and social life.
Globalization
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
The ability to induce behavior of others by persuasion.
Authority
The process through which a person learns to become an accepted member of society via agents such as family, peers, media.
Socialization
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
The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force
Hegemony
A social group is connected by a shared understanding of cultural identity
Ethnicity
A term covering a range of meanings in terms of the relatedness and connection of people. It may refer to a domestic group or household, or a wider kinship network.
Family
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
Any means used to maintain behavioural norms and regulate conflict (usually imposed by the state)
Social Control
his means that the minority group becomes physically separated from the majority, often accompanied by the notion that the members of the minority are inferior.
Segregation