concepts
Anthropology's commitment to look at the whole picture of human life across time and place. This concept aims to understand the human experience through all dimensions of humanity including language, biology, economics, psychology, and history. (associated with Franz Boas)
What is holism?
Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's "Bathing Babies in Three Cultures" represents these three cultures.
What is New Guinea, Bali, and the U.S.?
This anthropologist set forth a definition about culture that is still widely recognized.
Who is Edward Tylor?
In this text by Horace Miner, contemplation of cultural relativism is brought to the surface.
What is, "Body Rituals Among the Nacierma" (1956)
These are the four fields of Anthropology.
What is cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological?
This is the strong human tendency to believe that one's own culture or way of life is normal, natural, and superior to the beliefs and practices of others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Like Water For Chocolate contains elements from this literary subgenre popularized by Latin American writers in the 1950s such as Jose Marti and Ruben Dario.
What is magical realism?
Who is Bronislaw Malinowski?
This author argues that Nanook of the North should be thought of in relation to World War 1.
Who is Anna Grimshaw?
Participant observation, mapping/observation, and interviews are all apart of ______.
What is ethnographic fieldwork?
Prior to the professionalization of anthropological fieldwork, anthropologists relied on images, stories, and writings from missionaries, travelers, and colonialists.
What is armchair anthropology?
This film was a commercial success in both the United States and internationally in 1922.
What is Nanook of the North?
His work fulfilled the camera's promise to enhance, or even create new forms of scientific study.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
This author's chapter from her 2002 book analyzes representational strategies shared by the world's fair and early cinema, and how they were perceived by leading members of the American anthropological community.
Who is Allison Griffith?
a research tool to make social and spatial practices and the interactions in space visual and tangible. This research tool helps anthropologists structure and highlight the spatial and social interactions of cultural consultants.
What is mapping?
______ uses as its starting point theories, hypotheses, perspectives, and concepts from outside of the setting being studied to contribute to a wider discussion.
What is emic/etic?
The first one of this kind of film were single-shot moments capturing scenes of reality.
What are actuality films?
_______ was an anthropologist, academic, and public intellectual that authored Coming of Age in Samoa in 1928.
Who is Margaret Mead?
These authors discuss seven types of "gaze" in their analysis of National Geographic Photography.
Who is Lutz and Collins?
_________ has been central to fieldwork methods in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries-from data collection, to the production of anthropological knowledge (included in ethnographies).
What is photography?
The "scientific" study of the measurements and proportions of the human body.
What is anthropometry?
What does Tita insert inside the hen while cooking the "Quail in Rose Petal sauce" dish in Like Water For Chocolate?
What is a single rose petal?
This American filmmaker is recognized as the "father" of documentary cinema.
Who is Robert J. Flaherty?
In her 2008 text, this author sets forth Like Water For Chocolate, Chocolat, and Woman on Top as examples of films that "..offer food as a rhetorical device through which discourses of privilege are reconciled with and destabilized against contemporary practices of desire and and consumption, especially (and increasingly) for and of the "Other"."
Who is Helene Shugart?
Anthropologists study both these forms of cultural knowledge.
What is explicit and tacit cultural knowledge?