Defying Gravity Riff
Name the key concept:
The set of convictions, values and viewpoints regarded as “the truth” and shared by members of a social group. These are underpinned and supported by known cultural experience.
What is Belief and Knowledge?
Explain the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
Ethnocentrism: viewing and judging other cultures through the lens of one’s own cultural norms and beliefs.
Cultural Relativism: respecting culture that is not your own and understanding other cultures on their own terms without imposing external values.
Name the Ethnography.
C: 2010s-2020s
L: Germany
A: Thorsten Gieser
P: Shepherds, Hunters, and Wolf Advocates
What is Living with Wolves?
Name the three types of violence.
Structural, Symbolic, and Direct
Name the key concept:
The alteration or modification of cultural or social elements in a society. This may be due to internal dynamics within a society, or the result of contact with another culture, or a consequence of globalization.
What is Change?
Name the key concept:
Objects, resources, and belongings have cultural meaning and are embedded with all kinds of social relations and practices.
What is Materiality?
Define personhood using an example from any ethnography.
Responses may vary.
Name the Ethnography.
C: 2009
L: Harar, Ethiopia
A: Marcus Baynes-Rock
P: Harari people
What is Among the Bone Eaters?
Name Descola's 4 Ontologies.
Naturalism, Animism, Analogism, and Totemism.
Name the key concept:
The individual’s private and personal view of the self or the view of an individual in the eyes of the social group which define that person.
What is Identity?
Name the key concept:
Any relationship between two or more individuals in a network of relationships, involving an element of individual agency as well as group expectations to form the basis of social organization. They pervade every aspect of human life and are extensive, complex, and diverse.
What are Social Relations?
State 2 key concepts that fit with Living with Wolves and explain why.
Sample Response:
Belief and Knowledge: the differing communities of practice (hunters, shepherds, wolf advocates)
Materiality: the body of the wolf affecting other actors through its body language and physical traces.
CLAP Swamplife.
C: 1990s-2000s
L: Everglades
A: Laura Ogden
P: Gladesmen
Name who coined the term of governmentality and define it.
Michel Foucault; the way in which power is exercised and maintained through institutions, practices, and technologies that shape the behavior and subjectivity of individuals
Name the key concept:
A person’s or group’s capacity to influence, manipulate or control others and resources, involving distinctions and inequalities between members of a social group.
What is Power?
Name the key concept:
The study of the significance that people attach to objects, actions, and processes creating networks through which they construct a culture’s web of meaning.
What is Symbolism?
Explain how the concept of conflict seen in The Sixth Resettlement.
*Bonus points if you can CLAP The Sixth Resettlement
Sample Response:
Conflict in the Sixth Resettlement is seen through slow violence of cycles of debt between the Kucong and the Chinese government. The people at local markets bargain with the Kucong, underpaying them for their goods and not making enough money to move into the new homes.
C: 2010, L: Yunnan Province, China, A: Ouyang Bin, P: Kucong
CLAP Mushroom at the End of the World.
C: 2004-2011
L: Multi-sited (Oregon/United States, Japan, China, Finland)
A: Anna Tsing
P: Matsutake Mushroom Pickers
Name the two types of kinship with explanations of each.
Affinal: relation by marriage
Consanguineal: relation by blood
Name the key concept:
The way in which humans organize themselves in groups and networks. It is created and sustained by social relationships among persons and groups, and has an element of internal coherence by which members distinguish themselves from other groups.
What is Society?
Define Culture.
Organized systems of symbols, ideas, explanations, beliefs and material production that humans create and manipulate in the course of their daily lives. This includes the customs by which humans organize their physical world and maintain their social structure, and can be fluid and everchanging.
State 1 key concept that fits with Mushroom and the End of the World and explain why.
Sample Response:
Commodification: Tsing describes the process of turning mushrooms into something of value in different markets across the globe.
CLAP Guests of the Sheik or Identities on Trial
*Double points if you can CLAP both
Guests of the Sheik:
C: 1950s, L: El Nahar, A: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, P: Iraqi women
Identities on Trial:
C: 2000s, L: California, A: Chorswang Ngin, P: Asian American Immigrants in the US
Name the 3 major parts of a rite of passage.
1. Phase of separation
2. Liminal phase
3. Reaggregation/reincorporation phase
Define assemblage and explain it using Swamplife or Mushroom at the End of the World.
Assemblage: a temporary coming together of humans, animals, plants, technologies, laws, weather, histories, etc.
Answers may vary.