William Apess
William Apess participated in the Mashpee Wampanoag Revolt in 1833-34. What geographical location do the Wampanoag live in?
Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Are geographic maps and borders accurate representations of the sociocultural landscape of a particular physical space?
No
When was Ruth Benedict born?
1887
What topics do Appadurai's theories focus on?
Modernity and globalization
What is the main thing Bronsilaw Malinowski is best known for?
The idea of field work (participant observation) and ethnography. He was one of the main figures who established long-term, immersive fieldwork at the heart of the discipline.
Which Native American community did William Apess originate from?
Pequot
Which century did James Ferguson begin publishing anthropological works?
20th Century
What type of anthropologist was Ruth Benedict?
Since the latter part of the 19th century, anthropological theory has been based on what?
The practice of going somewhere (conducting fieldwork); creating a place
Where did Malinowski conduct his most influential fieldwork?
Oceania; specifically on the Trobriand Islands
What is Apess referring to when he mentions the “burning, fiery curse” of rum for Native American societies?
High prevalence of alcoholism due to colonial action/inaction
How does globalization impact the physical geographic space that an individual culture takes up?
Due to globalization, culture is mobile, and less confined to specific geographic spaces
Who was Ruth Benedict's mentor?
Franz Boas
For Appadurai, what is a "place"?
The object of anthropological study as well as the critical link between description and analysis in anthropological theory.
What is Kula?
Kula is a form of exchange, of extensive, inter-tribal character; it is carried on by communities inhabiting a wide ring of islands, which form a closed circuit.
What does William Apess mean when he says that discrimination and dehumanization of Indigenous people is based on a “bad principle”?
Usage of skin color to justify colonial actions (land theft, abuse, dehumanization)
According to James Ferguson, which more accurately characterizes the human condition: spatial interconnectedness, or division?
Spatial interconnectedness
What method did Ruth Benedict use to study Native American tribes?
Ethnographic Fieldwork
What are the zones of anthropology that people focus on when they study in a "place"?
Sociality (kinship), exchange (gifts), forms of polity (segmentary states)
What are the objects that the people traded in the Kula?
Red shell disc necklaces (veigun or soulava); white shell armbands (mwali)
William Apess worked as a minister which helped guide much of his activism work. What religion did he belong to?
Methodism
What is James Ferguson’s focus in anthropological study?
International development
What is the main conclusion in Benedict's most influential work, Patterns of Culture?
That personality and culture are interconnected in nuanced ways
How does the idea of studying a "place" begin to make the object of anthropological investigation, people in "other places", "others"?
Anthropologist have traditionally gone to a different place place from where they are from to study people; away from what they know, to learn new things about a society.
How did Malinowski get more information about the economy and exchange if individual people didn’t know the full story?
Would take the small pieces of information he had been told by different people and build on them by asking people who were a part of the ring what it meant for them, expanding the overall view and understanding of Kula practices and meanings.