Why anthropology? - answer-- Applied anthropologists work to solve real world problems
- Help understand where we came from
- Understand why certain attitudes and traditions are the way they are
What is anthropology? - answer-- Study of humans beyond their biological factors
- See how differe...
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Why anthropology? - answer-- Applied anthropologists work to solve real world
problems
- Help understand where we came from
- Understand why certain attitudes and traditions are the way they are
What is anthropology? - answer-- Study of humans beyond their biological factors
- See how different groups of people react in certain situations and why
What is so distinctive about anthropological fieldwork? - answer-- They build cultural
relationships over a long - period of time
- Most qualitative of the social sciences
- More holistic
What is participant observation? - answer-a research strategy involving both
participation in and observation in the daily life of people being studied
Asides from participant observation and interviews do anthropologists use other
methods? - answer-- Comparative
- Genealogical
- Collecting life histories
- Ethnohistory
- Rapid appraisal
What special ethical dilemmas do ethnographers face? - answer-- Not protected by
the first amendment
- Helping the US military sometimes means they would lose that territories trust
What methods did Sterk use to carry out her research? - answer-participant
observation
What have Sterk learned from hanging out with prostitutes? - answer-- Explanations
for involvement
- Typology that captures difference
- Role of pimps
- Aids epidemic in women's lives
- Violence and abuse in their lives
- Escape from the life is difficult
What did Malinowski learn by doing fieldwork in the Trobiand Island? - answer--
Malaria ridden
- Carnivores
- "Yoba", sacred ceremony, salom occasion everyone took seriously
- He found it was not so much religious, rather a party, "no sanctity or solemnity"
- People tell you one thing but do another but not with the purpose of lying
- He found you could not solely rely on what people say
- They were actually sophisticated and rational just like "us"
, Describe the Kula - answer-- Every few months islanders built fleets of elaborately
decorated canoes
- Set out on voyages
- Left behind friends and family for months at a time
- Awaited with great anticipation
- Kula visitors were treated with great feasts
- Very risky voyage between islands
- Rewards for journey were flimsy shell trinkets (heart of kula)
- Only important men could afford
- Almost exclusive to tribal chiefs or men of rank
- Reached far beyond the Trobriand island
- Makes up a chain of relationships (12 island groups, 200 miles of ocean)
- Trinkets had value made up of its unique history including its relationships
- Shells were potent symbols of power and prestige
- Reinforced the status of the rich and famous
- Owning a piece of kula made you a hero
What are the ideas that have shaped the Happy Meal? - answer-- american diet
- government regulation
- industrial agricultural production
- the environment
- social movements
- health concerns
- labor practices
- consumer leverage
- gender norms
- connections to workers and consumers across the globe
What is culture? - answer-- system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior,
artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared, and contested by a
group of people
- shared norms, values, symbols, mental maps of reality, and material objects as
well as structures of power in which our understanding of the world is shaped,
reinforced, and negotiated
- is learned throughout our lives
- process of learning culture is called enculturation by anthropologist
- we may learn through formal institutions
- all humans are equally capable of learning culture
- shared and contested
What makes us strangers when we are away from home? - answer-
If culture is constantly contested, negotiated, and changing, why does it feel so
stable? - answer-- norms are closely related to actual behavior
- norms are stable because people learn from an early age because of social
pressure to conform
How do symbols, values, or norms reinforce your own behavior? Give an example
from your own daily practice. - answer-- values are symbolic expressions of
desirable principles or qualities
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