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Concept: Balance of power and trust is important to avoid exploitation of the subjects of research.
Clue: This term requires trust between ethnographic researchers and interlocutors.
Answer: What is ethnographic ethics (Adams & Herrman 2023; July2nd_Canvas_Slides, 13)?
Concept: What is something auto-ethnography writing can do that an autobiography can’t offer?
Clue: Auto ethnography is a self-reflexive writing style.
Answer: Auto ethnography shares the author’s experience and thought process within a specific context/event. An autobiography is a story of an author’s life (Adams & Herrmann 2023, 1-2)
Also acceptable: What is a writing style that sometimes can translate into other academic papers such as dissertations and research papers (Adams & Herrmann 2023, 4)
Concept: Draw one similarity between Auden Schlender’s New York Times Article and Knox’s book in relation to capitalism and big oil companies.
Clue: An accounting tool that supposedly benefits individuals but it mostly benefits big oil and capitalism.
Answer: What is carbon footprint
Concept: Name one ethnography piece that’s from the reading or in class?
Clue: One of the broad criterias to ethnography is it has to be research-based.
Answer: Here are the incorrect answers: any reading irrelevent to ANTH 204 as well as Why Can’t We Speak African and See You in Pyongyang.
Multiple answers are acceptable (ie. Theory of Culture, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, etc.). However for nuances sake, remember that not everyone will be on the same page of what’s considered ethnography.
Concept: The interlocutors in Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Clue: Argonauts is written by an ethnographer named Bronisław Malinowski who traveled to Melanesian New Guinea.
Answer: What is the indigenous tribe (Malinowski 1922)?
Also Acceptable: Trobriand people, Indigenous tribespeople, etc.
Concept: Fill in the following: [blank] what the parodist, winker or twitcher is doing. while [blank] asks what is within the object of ethnography.
Clue: Geertz uses Ryle’s two essays to tell us that [blank] are observations we see on a surface level while [blank] tells us the significance and meaning.
Answer: What is thin & thick description? (Geertz 1973, 7)
Concept: Name one of Geertz’s three core characteristics of ethnographic description? +50 Jeopardy Points if MORE THAN ONE are answered correctly.
Clue: Geertz says that textual ethnography tends to leave readers with their own conclusion and opinion, making this a less than perfect science.
Answer:
Ethnographic description orient themselves towards interpretation social discourse/discussion
Ethnographic description interprets social discourse elements that are clear for inoculators that have shared cultural knowledge but not to outsiders.
Ethnographic description is interpretative
(Geertz 1973, 20) & June25 Slides (25/32)
Concept: “Since the Anthropocene has been taken up in anthropology and social theory, [...] humans should be held responsible for [BLANK] in oceans, atmospheres and geologies.
Clue: This term refers to a geological process that has some contribution to climate change
Answer: Anthropogenic transformation (Knox 2020, 22)
Concept: An example of [BLANK] is the synonyms to happiness are joy, contentment and cheery.
Clue: This term states that these four words are synonyms but they’re not the same because of their nuance definition.
Answer: What is signification? ((Narayan 2012, 22)
Concept: Colonial history and social hierarchies are not acknowledged.
Clue: Balinese cockfights are a leisure activity in Bali’s social structure with its own set of criticism critiqued by anthropologists such as Geertz.
Answer: What is orientalism (Geertz 1973, 124)?
Concept: What is the difference between Ethnography, Ethnology and Ethnographic?
Clue: Ethno refers to a group of people. Also consider the Greek and Latin endings of each word.
Answer: Ethnology is the study of specific socio-ethnic groups and the relationships among it. Ethnography is a research methodology & writing genre Lastly, Ethnographic writing is a “creative nonfiction” approach on a relationship among specific socio-ethnic group(s). (Narayan 2012, 14-35)
Concept: Cheeney (from Narayan’s reading) suggests creative nonfiction writers to start with the following prompt, “A turning point that I particularly want to tell you about is…”. What’s the intention behind Cheeney’s advice?
Clue: In the reading synonyms to turning point are flashback, showdown, argument, life reversals, disasters, beginnings,etc.
Answer: Starting off with a turning point is one way to retell a story in a interesting way (Narayan 2012, 22)
Concept: Unlike [BLANK] personhood [...], [BLANK] emerge as a rearguard response to acts of technical probing that reveal signs to which those who are participants in this process find themselves required to respond.”
Clue: This personhood centers around individual choice when responding to climate change under capitalism while this personhood means the person with agency recognize that climate change can’t be properly addressed under capitalism
Answer: What is neoliberal and responsive personhood (Knox 2022, 261)
Concept: How is See You In Pyongyang’s is an example of writing that has less factualization. How so?
Clue: See You In Pyongyang is written in third person perspective. Think of what part of this story is fabricated from the actual event in 1995.
Answer: The characters of this story are likely to be changed for anonymity reason.
Concept: What is the main theme that Patel & Singh addressed regarding their cultural identity?
Clue: Ishann Patel and Kanwarjeet Singh both struggle with their identity fitting into a developed nation.
Answer: Ishann Patel tried connecting back to his culture with difficult-to-find foods in the UK while Singh holds space for his dysphoria struggles before moving out of India to pursue his doctoral study (Singh et al. 2022, 30; Patil 2022).
Concept: Fidelity & Faction. Elaborate on the relationship with these two terms and within the silent film, Nanook of the North.
Clue: It was filmed in 1922 that starred a character named Nanook. Nanook’s actual name is Allakariallak. This film is also controversial because of how it romanticizes Inuit Tribe.
Answer: Nanook of the North has a high fidelity and high falsehood because (1) it doesn’t acknowledge Canada’s history of indigenous genocide and (2) some of the cast for the film were played by the (Robert Fhlatery) director’s family members. (June 20_Slides 2024, 11)
Concept: Why is “My Life as a Spy” considered an ethnography despite the fact that the author, Katherne Verderey is not an actual spy?
Clue: My Life as a Spy is a detective-like non-fiction work written by Katherne Verderey. She wrote this around a time where the Romanian communist party is still in power
Answer: My Life as a spy is considered ethnography because the author studies how government surveillance operates in Romania's dictatorship.
Also Acceptable: The author refers to different parts of the excerpts. Unlike ethnography, an autobiography has a linear chronological timeline of an individual’s life.
Concept: In the book, Thinking Like a Climate, the author says that climate change is not just a material process. What does she mean by that?
Clue: The material process she refers to is the weather, natural phenomena such as natural disasters
Answer: What is [Climate change] is a social issue that is already affecting the way we are in relation with each other, even when there’s no anthropocene-induced (geologically-induced) phenomena happening. (Knox 2020, 60-61)
Concept: “You can’t wink [...] without knowing what counts as winking or how, physically, to contract your eyelids, and you can’t conduct a sheep raid (or mimic one without knowing what it is to steal a sheep and how to practically to go about it.” From this excerpt, this is an example of…?
Clue: Geertz’s in his Theory of Culture book uses this analogy to state that we don’t know the significance behind this cultural phenomenon without knowing the context.
Answer: What is semiotics (Geertz 1973, 12) & ANTH 204 June25 slides (8/32)
Concept: “In this chapter, I use Sophia's class as a lens into the “progressive” side of the paradox of carceral progressivism.” In this context, what does she mean by “carceral progressivism” ?
Clue: “[…] [Sofia’s] consistent, successful, efforts to dislodge antiblackness in the provisions of Spanish language curriculum mark her practice as a win for antiracist reform.[...]
Answer: What is using an antiblack social justice perspective and classroom observations to bring up challenges to the America’s prison (peneal) system (Shange 2019, 47).