AN203-057 15 July 2003 Welcome… Have a seat… We will begin at 6pm.

AN203-05715 July 2003

Welcome…

Have a seat…

We will begin at 6pm

Agenda

Agenda

• End of “Promises” video

Agenda


• Brief comments on the video

Agenda



• Review

Agenda



• Review

• Peer editing session – web journals

Agenda



• Review


• On-line Exhibition Review announcement

Agenda



• Review



• Mapping group(s)

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• Review



• Mapping group

• Films: “The Feast”

“Promises”

• More information about the film, the filmmakers, the children, and the conflict in Israel-Palestine may be found at the following URL:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/

index.html

“Promises”

“Promises”

• As I mentioned before the film, I think it is an example of ethnography that could be useful for learning some the basic vocabulary and the key concepts of cultural anthropology.

“Promises”

• As I mentioned before the film, I think it is an example of ethnography that could be useful for learning some the basic vocabulary and the key concepts of cultural anthropology.

• We will review some terms and concepts from the reading; where applicable, examples from “Promises” will illustrate.

Review

Review

• A term will appear on the screen.

Review

• A term will appear on the screen.

• For each term, you will have a few moments to gather your thoughts before the definition appears.

Review

• A term will appear on the screen.• For each term, you will have a few

moments to gather your thoughts and make a few notes before the definition appears.

• Once the definition has been explained, you will have a few more moments to think of a specific example from “Promises” that illustrates the term/concept.

Sources

• The following list is a selective list of terms encountered in Monaghan & Just, pp. 1-74.

• The definitions come from three sources:– Monaghan & Just, Social & Cultural Anthropology.

NY: Oxford, 2000.

– Podolefsky & Brown, Applying Cultural Anthropology. 6th Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

– Kottak, Cultural Anthropology. 9th Edition. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

fieldwork

fieldwork

• The hallmark of research in cultural anthropology, it usually involves long-term residence with the people being studied.

ethnography

ethnography

• The intensive and systematic description of a particular society; ethnographic information is usually collected through the method of long-term participant-observation fieldwork.

colonialism

colonialism

• The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.

participant observation

participant observation

• The primary research method of cultural anthropology, involving long-term observations conducted in natural settings.

serendipitous discovery

serendipitous discovery

• See Monaghan & Just, p. 19

methodological, ethical, epistemological issues

methodological, ethical, epistemological issues

• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-33

ethnocentrism

ethnocentrism

• The assumption that one’s own group’s lifestyle, values, and patterns of adaptation are superior to all others.

emic

• The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.

etic

• The research strategy that emphasizes the observer’s rather than the natives’ explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.

temporal/spatial isolation

temporal/spatial context

acquired characteristics

psychophysics

classification/social categories/contestation

classification/social categories/contestation

• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 42-43.

ideology

ethnic group

ethnic group

• A group of people within larger society with a distinct cultural or historical identity; ethnicity is a common mechanism of social separation in complex, heterogeneous societies.

manifest function

manifest function

• The reasons that natives offer for a custom.

latent function

latent function

• A custom’s underlying function, often unperceived by natives.

socialization

socialization

• The development, through the influence of parents and others, of patterns of thought and behavior in children that conform to beliefs and values of a particular culture.

social identity

cross-cultural

cross-cultural

• A standard form of anthropological analysis using the comparison of traditions and practices from different societies; cross-cultural research explores cultural variations by using ethnographic data from many societies.

total institution

dualistic expectations

dualistic expectations

• See Monaghan & Just, p. 68

Film

• “The Feast”

• An ethnography by John Marshall

• About two Yanomamo tribes

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