Methods
The in-depth study of the everyday practices and lives of a people, can include learning their language and living alongside them.
What is Ethnography?
These were a major component in human language development since they involve planning and imitation to produce.
What are Tools?
This type of kinship is through marriage.
What is Affinal Kinship?
This mode of production involves classes of rulers and subjects, in which the subjects produce items and give them to the rulers.
What is Tributary Production?
An early and discredited method of anthropological research that did not involve direct contact with the people studied.
What is Armchair Anthropology?
To observe a culture from the perspective of the people being researched
What is the Emic Perspective
The theory that the particular language you speak influences how you think about reality.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
A post-marital residence pattern where a newly married couple resides with an uncle.
What is Avunculocal?
This mode of exchange involves attempting to get something for nothing.
What is Negative Reciprocity?
The process of learning the characteristics and expectations of a culture or group.
What is enculturation?
Examples include: cleaning milk jugs used to make cheese, diving in a submarine with marine biologists, and baking edible insect cookies.
What is Participant Observation?
The transfer of information from a sender to a receiver; can be voluntary or involuntary, simple or complex.
What is Communication?
This is a monogamous relationship practiced by the Mosuo people.
What is a Walking Marriage?
The process of buying, eating, or using a resource, food, commodity, or service.
What is Consumption?
The "father" of cultural relativism.
Who is Franz Boas?
When more than one person’s voice is presented to ensure that informants’ perspectives are represented.
What is Polyvocality?
The functional power of language to make things happen.
What is Performativity?
Material value carried by the bride into her own marriage to provide her with symbolic leverage within her husband’s lineage.
What is a Dowry?
A social structure or institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs.
What is Structural Violence?
This early anthropologist did not use ethical practices when researching and writing about Samoans.
Who is Margaret Mead?
The lens(es) anthropologists use to look at and analyze a topic.
What is Theory?
Also known as African American English (AAE), this way of speaking is looked down on by some language ideologies.
What is Ebonics?
Practice of giving up daughters to other families as future daughters-in-law.
What is Sim Pua, or Adopted-Daughter Marriage
This group of people practice pastoralism and wear red to protect them from charging animals.
Who are the Maasai?
On the second day of class, I told you: "If you learn nothing else in this course, please remember this"
What is Cultural Relativism?