Anthropology in a Global Age
The belief that one’s own culture or way of life is normal and natural; using one’s own culture to evaluate and judge the practices and ideals of others.
Ethnocentrism
Horace Miner wrote “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” (1956) to do this
A system of communication organized by rules that uses symbols such as words, sounds, and gestures to convey information.
Language
Marin is a cultural anthropologist who wants to better understand the lives of women working in sugarcane plantations in Brazil. Which approach to research would allow her to best gain a holistic perspective of the women’s lives?
Firsthand ethnographic fieldwork
The location where Dr. Hayami has carried out ethnographic fieldwork for the past 30 years
The Thai Highlands
The four fields of American Anthropology include: ______, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and cultural anthropology.
Archaeology
Anthropologists make the _____ familiar and the ________
strange, familiar strange
The idea that different languages create different ways of thinking.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Fieldwork strategy developed to collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about Native American populations being devastated by the westward expansion of European settlers.
Salvage Ethnography
In their research on "How Cellphones Make and Break Human Connections," Bell and coworkers conducted interviews with this group of people
High schoolers in the US
The rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space (distances) and time.
Time-space compression
Sitting in your anthropology class helps you learn about culture through formal instruction. You can also learn about culture informally, through interactions with family, friends, and the media. What is this process of learning culture called?
Enculturation
A particular language variation or way of speaking that is associated with wealth, success, education, and power.
Prestige language
A critical self-examination of the role the anthropologist plays and an awareness that one’s identity affects one’s fieldwork and theoretical analyses.
Reflexivity
The language spoken (and sung) by Navajo country music artists
Diné
One of two flexible strategies to accumulate profits in the era of globalization.
Offshoring, Outsourcing
Antonio Gramsci differentiated between two types of power: ________ and _______
Material, Hegemonic
Someone who is interested in the study of the relationship between body movements and communication is interested in this
Kinesics
The practice of using many different voices in ethnographic writing and research question development, allowing the reader to hear more directly from the people in the study.
Polyvocality
The term for the perceived amount of "Navajo Blood" someone possesses in their body
Blood Quantum
The current historical era in which human activity is reshaping the planet in permanent ways.
Anthropocene
An area of study in the field of genetics exploring how environmental factors directly affect the expression of genes during one’s lifetime
Epigenetics
Studied stories that were told and their association with place-names among Apache communities
Keith Basso
Studied witchcraft among the Azande in present-day Sudan
EE Evans-Pritchard
Among Nacirema peoples, dentists are called this
"Holy Mouth Men"