Enlightenment and Modernity
This term described mythical beings who were thought to have lacked a head, and instead had their face buried within their chest
What is a Blemmye?
study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another
What is "anthropology"?
Term used by unilinear cultural evolutionists to describe Western Culture.
What is "civilization"?
a primary research strategy in cultural anthropology that typically involves living and interacting with a community of people over an extended period to better understand their lives
What is Ethnographic Fieldwork?
Horace Miner's article about this cultural group found that a"fundamental belief underlying the whole system is that the human body is ugly and its tendency is toward debility and disease."
Who are the Nacirema?
BONUS: Culture - This was the second form of power described by Antonio Gramsci; not hegemony, but this
What is "material power"?
the use of four interrelated disciplines to study humanity: biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and cultural anthropology
What is, the "four-field approach"?
Anything that represents something else
What is "symbol"?
The framework that anthropologists use to challenge ethnocentrism
What is cultural relativism?
Horace Miner's "Holy-Mouth Men" would best be described in our terms as this
What is, a dentist?
Bonus! Culture - this term describes the often unwritten ideas or rules about the appropriate behavior of people within particular situations (e.g. "polite society")
What are "norms"?
a key anthropological research strategy involving both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being studied
what is "participant observation"?
the unwanted taking of cultural practices or knowledge from one group by another, more dominant group
What is cultural appropriation?
fieldwork strategy developed by Franz Boas to collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about Native American populations being devastated by the westward expansion of European settlers.
What is Salvage Ethnography?
This one word perhaps best describes the relationship between high schoolers and their smart phones.
What is "ambivalence?"
This term describes the potential for both the anthropologist and the members of the community being studied to undergo an experience of being changed as a result of the anthropologist's research.
What is "Mutual Transformation"?
the strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies
What is "flexible accumulation"?
ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force
What is "hegemony"?
This person's ethnographic fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands was influential in the development of the concept of reflexivity
Who is Annette Weiner?
If the case of the Latino History Museum exhibit at the Smithsonian History Museum demonstrates anything, it is that LatinX people in the US are anything BUT this
What is a cultural monolith?
This concept situated all of the observable world and the supernatural universe on a single plane of existence, with increasing complexity, from the rocks to God, with Western "civilization" (Euro-Americans) one step below.
What is "the Great Chain of Being"?
This term describes the UNEQUAL distribution of the benefits accumulated under globalization
What is "uneven development"?
conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium
What is "structural functionalism"?
a key strategy for protecting those being studied by ensuring that they are fully informed of the goals of the project and have clearly indicated their consent to participate
What is Informed Consent?
This practitioner, according to Miner, has the power to "exercise the devils in the heads of the people who have been bewitched" and is best translated to contemporary English as this
What is a psychologist/therapist?