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Anthropology
What was the European Association of Social Antropologists created for ?
To bring Southern and Northern european anthropologists together, to engage in cooperation and discussion.
What is STS?
Science and Technology Studies
What is Glocality?
The unpredictability of social change withing the interplay of local and global influences, acts and reactions.
What did the fall of the iron curtain change in european anthropology?
Western and Eastern european anthropologists were finally able to coopeate. Old traditions forgoten in the west were preserved in the east.
Why was Latour's and woolgar's Laboratory Life important?
Defamiliarization of western science, analysis of comunication between researchers and researched, formation of Actor Network Theory (ANT).
What older theories maintained their inmportance in globalization?
According to Eriksen:
1. Marxist analysis
2. Peasant studies
3. Urbanization
What does the author think about English being the lingua franca of anthropology?
negatives:
- Non-english research is ommited in broader debates.
- Non-native english speakers have more difficulty with self-expression in academic writing.
positives:
+ Better accessibility, as english is widespread.
What is the main idea of Actor Network Theory (ANT)?
Eery actor, even nonhuman, is communicative and has agency. Thus more-than-human worlds are possible and the affect of material culture on humans can be studied.
What is critized of Globalization studies?
Their lack of criticism towards neo-imperialism.
What is unique about Brazilian anthropology?
Hybridity and transformation of indigenous tribes, activism, emic representation.
What does cognitive science bring to anthropology?
Biological baseline of human thinking. Certain universalism that is being built on by social proccesess. But also the eradication of society-nature dualism.
What is Katherine Verdery known for?
Her publication Theorising Socialism: A prolougue to the transition. Important part of post-socialist studies.
What was unique about pre-revolutionary russian anthropology?
Ethnographers had other proffesions and engaged in applied research, they worked on codifing languages for minorities.
What is evolutionary psychology?
Scientific field built on evolutionary anthropology. It offers explanation of social and psychological phenomenons through environmental factors of the individual. Dangerously close to bio-determinism.
How does Ulf Hannerz redefine culture?
As an unstable flow instead of stable tradition of norms. Claims creoliyation of cultures in globalized world.