Intro and Methods
What is ethnography?
An attempt to categorize humans based on observed physical differences.
What is race?
The study of the means of control in societies.
What is political anthropology?
Practices intended to bring supernatural forces under one's personal control.
What is magic?
Anything that serves to refer to something else, but has an arbitrary meaning.
What is a symbol?
The perspective that focuses on how people perceive and categorize their own culture and experiences.
What is emic?
The author of the poem "The White Man's Burden".
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
A tactic used in societies in which people reject attempts by any individual to exercise power.
What is reverse dominance?
A ritual moving a person from one social role to another and carried out in three phases - separation, liminality, and incorporation.
What is a rite of passage?
An act where a speaker uses several language varieties in a particular interaction.
What is code-switching?
This subfield of anthropology aims to solve specific practical problems in collaboration with governmental, non-profit, and community organizations.
What is Applied Anthropology?
A racial classification system that assigns a person with mixed racial heritage to the racial category that is considered least privileged.
What is hypodescent?
A society in which few differences exist between members in terms of wealth, status and power.
What is an egalitarian system?
An explanation for the origin or history of the world in the study of religion.
What is a cosmology?
The common English phrases "I won the argument" and "I had a fight with my boyfriend" are examples of this American conceptual metaphor.
What is 'argument is war'?
The tendency to view one's own culture as more important and correct than any other culture is called.
What is ethnocentrism?
A term used to describe laws passed by state and local governments in the United States during the early 20th century to enforce racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow?
At the level of the state, the law becomes increasingly like this.
What is formal?
A theorist who posited that religion operates as an ideology that justifies inequality.
Who is Karl Marx?
The theory developed from Benjamin Whorf's research into the Hopi language.
What is linguistic relativity?
Widely known as the founder of American anthropology, this anthropologist insisted that while cultures differ, they are not superior to nor inferior than one another.
Who is Franz Boas?
The term for scholars who created localized, regional racial classification schemes which attempt to be "precise".
Who are splitters?
The four types of sociocultural integration according to Elman Service.
What is band, tribal, chiefdom, and state?
A theorist who posited three stages to a ritual, involving separation, liminality, and incorporation.
Who is Arnold van Gennep?
An anthropologist who theorized that a double standard exists in which the speech of racialized groups is intensely monitored, whereas white speakers are permitted to engage in linguistic mixing.
Who is Jane Hill?