Films
This is one rite of passage that Barbara Myerhoff partakes in that requires a bath in her film "In Her Own Time"
What is a mikvah?
The creation of new cultural phenomenon from the merging and converging of cultures.
What is transculturalism
These can be reasons that magic is commonly used in baseball.
Because baseball relies mostly on chance, people want to feel in control.
This anthropological/methodological theory suggests that our positions in society often informs the kinds of questions we ask, how we see the world, and can be employed as valuable forms of knowledge.
What is standpoint epistemology?
What does atavism mean in the context of Adrian de Leon's article?
Filipino migrants that seek a reconnection to their cultural roots through exploration of their native identity.
This was one of the prestige dialects mentioned in American Tongues.
What is the Boston Brahmin dialect?
These are responses to oppressive regimes (inscribing histories that would otherwise be ignored.) They are also first-hand accounts written by and individual, or transcribed by a listener.
What is witnessing/testimonio?
Which anthropologist is closely associated with reflexive anthropology?
Who is Ruth Behar?
This method suggests that the personhood of the anthropologist can affect the ethnographies they write. This movement in anthropology draws upon critiques of anthropologies' role in colonialism and patriarchal standards.
What is reflexive anthropology?
This reading is based on the author's personal experiences of growing up on the U.S.-Mexican border.
What is Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
This enacts cultural citizenship by affirming marginalized identities and challenging inequality.
What is charged humor?
Weinreich said, "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"- what do you think this means?
social and political conditions/systems/and hierarchies create a complex relationship that reflect cultural interactions through languages and dialect.
This method combines photography with ethnographic fieldwork.
What is photo-ethnography?
This is the scattering or migration of people from an established or ancestral homeland.
What is a diaspora?
This is a discipline in anthropology that examines how language use and choice shape cultural and social diversity of communities and persons.
What is linguistic anthropology?
These are personal stories that people tell to explain their illnesses.
What are illness narratives?