anthropology
what is the primary method of cultural anthropology?
What is ethnography?
The answer to the question "Do Muslim women really need saving?""
What is "no."
Any observable thing (including a sound, word, object, gesture, placement…) that carries a meaning or meanings
What is a sign?
A system of kinship where descent follows the male line only.
what is patrilineal kinship?
A German-Jewish immigrant who founded the department at Columbia University, and who was particularly influential in separating the concepts of culture and race.
Who was Franz Boas?
The descriptive concept for human difference with which the culture concept in the U.S. has been most closely in conversation?
What is "race?"
The organization that authored anthropology's 2012 "Code of Ethics" in the U.S.
What is the American Anthropological Association?
Language does not simply mirror or reflect reality, but also shapes it.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
The two main forms of bringing wealth or resources into a marriage.
what are bridewealth and dowry?
A nineteenth century Haitian anthropologist who wrote "On the Equality of the Races."
who was Antenor Firmin
Four characteristics of social or cultural anthropology
What are ethnographic, holistic, comparative, critical?
A distinction drawn by Renato Rosaldo, between a modest doctrine that allows you to make ethical judgements, as long as you engage people whose behavior you disagree with, and a much broader "anything goes" philosophy.
what is cultural vs. ethical relativism?
a set of ideas about languages and speakers of language, often inflected by relations of power
What is language ideology?
what is "fictive" kinship?
U.S. linguist who worked with Benjamin Whorf to craft a hypothesis that language shapes reality (to some degree).
Who was Edward Sapir?
4 big ideas that anthropology can help us understand (according to Elizabeth Ferry).
What are:
People are very different all over the world and in different times and situations…and they are also basically the same.
Believing that your specific way of doing things is the natural/good/moral/right/only way to do them, is a human universal.
Humans create the worlds they live in, and then they are also created by them.
People’s most fundamental and important beliefs about the world show up in the tiniest everyday behaviors—often when they are not aware of it.
An article that we have read that uses comparison in explicit or implicit ways.
What are (here almost any article we have read will count, but examples are): articles by Miner, Lee, , Gibbs, Basso...?
According to Keith Basso, the conditions under which Western Apache may choose to remain silent.
What are conditions of ambiguity?
The kinship system described in Goldstein's "When Brothers Share a Wife."
What is "fraternal polyandry?"
Novelist and anthropologist linked to the Harlem Renaissance.
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
the central concept in social or cultural anthropology and its definition in this course
what is the culture concept, which is defined as
an approach to studying collective groups of humans, focusing on systems of meaning and action that are:patterned; learned; shared; contested?
Two rituals compared by Mark Auslander in is article "How Families Work"
What are the mugeniso ritual in West Africa
and U.S. December holiday rituals?
The reason why Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon was not published for eight decades.
What is that it was written in a non-standard form of AAVE, described by Hurston and others at the time as "dialect?"
Type of cousins that preferred are sometimes preferred as marriage partners in South India.
What are "cross-cousins?" (mother's brother's child)
a mid 20th century anthropologist who coined the phrase "thick description."
Who was Clifford Geertz?