Cultural Anthropology
The approach in anthropology where we believe no culture should be judged based on the values or practices of another.
What is cultural relativism?
Kinesics
What is body language?
What is foraging?
The mode of production in which workers sell their labor for a wage?
What is capitalist production?
The activities and responsibilities associated with your status.
An insider perspective in research.
What is an emic perspective?
What is the grammar of a particular language?
Foodways
What are the customs and cultural norms around food?
The type of reciprocity typified by the Kula ring.
What is balanced reciprocity?
Matrilineal
Descent is passed down through the mother's family line.
Ideas or rules about how people should act in specific communities.
What are norms?
While ways of communicating can be considered languages versus dialects based on the degree of differences between them, that distinction also sometimes has to do with this.
What are political histories and structures?
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The potlatch.
What is a feast and ritual performed by Native American groups from the Pacific Northwest in which gifts and needed goods are exchanged?
Polygamy.
The practice of marrying more than one person.
A research method in which the researcher studies a culture through immersion in that culture.
What is ethnographic fieldwork?
Amy Tan's essay demonstrates the unfounded idea that a person's ability to do this reflects their level of intelligence.
What is speak a language fluently in the "standard" way?
The system that makes it so some communities may grow food that they don't have access to because it is exported to richer communities (i.e. quinoa in Bolivia).
What is the global food system?
The power to contest culture institutions and make consequential decisions about your life.
What is agency?
A social construct, not a biological fact.
What is race?
What Miner is asking us to do through the "Nacirema" article, asking us to look critically at our own biases and practices.
What is reflexivity?
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
What is the theory that whatever language we speak effects the way we think?
Food desert.
What is an area where fresh, affordable food is of limited availability?
What is a broader focus on many forms of exchange as well as the meanings of those exchanges?
Ethnocentrism
Judging cultural practices based on your own culture's values, practices, ideas, and norms.