an203-057 15 july 2003
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AN203-057 15 July 2003. Welcome… Have a seat… We will begin at 6pm. Agenda. Agenda. End of “Promises” video. Agenda. End of “Promises” video Brief comments on the video. Agenda. End of “Promises” video Brief comments on the video Review. Agenda. End of “Promises” video - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
AN203-05715 July 2003
Welcome…
Have a seat…
We will begin at 6pm
Agenda
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
• On-line Exhibition Review announcement
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
• On-line Exhibition Review announcement
• Mapping group(s)
Agenda
• End of “Promises” video
• Brief comments on the video
• Review
• Peer editing session – web journals
• On-line Exhibition Review announcement
• 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
emic
• The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.
etic
etic
• The research strategy that emphasizes the observer’s rather than the natives’ explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.
temporal/spatial isolation
temporal/spatial isolation
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26
temporal/spatial context
temporal/spatial context
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26
acquired characteristics
acquired characteristics
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 34-35
psychophysics
psychophysics
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 36-37
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
total institution
• See Monaghan & Just, pp. 62-63
dualistic expectations
dualistic expectations
• See Monaghan & Just, p. 68
Film
• “The Feast”
• An ethnography by John Marshall
• About two Yanomamo tribes