Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology

Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …

• Compare and contrast the ideas of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. ... cultural differences, conflicts occurring in human society, and the balance of power. It also provides an important example of the Other. The Other is a matter of perspective in this story: Gulliver thinks

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instance, in the United Kingdom and many European countries, the subfield of cultural anthropology . is referred to as social (or socio-cultural) anthropology. Archaeology, biological anthropology, and lin-guistic anthropology are frequently considered to be part of different disciplines. In some countries, like

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Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• Identify the four levels of socio-cultural integration (band, tribe, chiefdom, and state) and describe their characteristics. • Compare systems of leadership in egalitarian and non-egalitarian societies. • Describe systems used in tribes and chiefdoms to achieve social integration and encourage connections between people.

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• Identify some of the contemporary ethnographic fieldwork techniques and perspectives. • Discuss some of the ethical considerations in doing anthropological fieldwork. • Summarize how anthropologists transform their fieldwork data into a story that communicates meaning.

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techniques. This interdisciplinary perspective allows for cross-cultural comparison of human diets. In several decades of anthropological research on subsistence systems, anthropologists have observed that the quest for food affects almost every aspect of daily life. For instance, every person plays a role in soci-

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marriage, these concepts help us compare family systems across cultures. KINSHIP AND DESCENT . ... Typically, people must marry someone outside their own lineage. In figures 3 and 4, the shaded symbols represent people who are in the same lineage. The unshaded symbols represent people who have married into the lineage.

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Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

4. It is challenging to determine precisely when globalization began. Although some people discuss . globalization as if it was an entirely new process without historical antecedents, in truth its precursors . have been going on for a very long time. In this chapter, we argue that the distinguishing feature of

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Gender and Sexuality - American Anthropological Association

Decades of research on gender and sexuality, including by feminist anthropologists, has challenged these old theories, particularly biological determinism. We now understand that cultures, not nature, 233. create the gender ideologies that go along with being born male or female and the ideologies vary

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Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

enrolled in my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course just before we begin the unit on race and . ethnicity in a worksheet and ask them to answer each question fully to the best of their ability with-out doing any outside research. At the next class, I …

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Anthropology

3. Identify a current news item and suggest ways that a cultural anthropologist might study this issue to gain a greater understanding of why it has occurred/is occurring. What kinds of questions would you ask? What methods would you use? Chapter 4: Language Discussion Questions 1.

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The present age is of nation, states and - cms.gcg11.ac.in

The present age is of nation, states and internationalism in which no state, however strong it may be, can not live in isolation. Every state has to establish economic, social, political,

Arundati Rai’s The God of Small Things – A Post- Colonial ...

IRWLE VOL. 7 No. 2 July 2011 1 Arundati Rai’s The God of Small Things – A Post-Colonial Reading Rajeev. G The adjective “post colonial” signifies the notion that the novel or

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From Peasant Studies to Agrarian Change - Wiley-Blackwell

2 Henry Bernstein and Terence J. Byres PEASANT STUDIES: A FOUNDING MOMENT The origins of JPS have been sketched by Byres (1994), to which readers can refer.1 Several features of his brief account merit selective emphasis and elabora- tion for present purposes. Byres described how JPS emerged from the Peasants Seminar of the University of London, which he convened with Charles …

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The University of the State of New York REGENTS HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION UNITED STATES HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT Thursday, August 18, 2011 — 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., only Student Name _____ School Name _____

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GOOD GOVERNANCE: WHITHER AFRICA? PRESENTATION …

Page 2 of 11 BRIEF PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER Prof. PLO – Lumumba is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya School of Law. He is a Professor of Public Law and Founding Dean, Kabarak University School of Law. He has

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