Clifford geertz - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Anthropology Study of the origins and development of people and their societies AAA's Code of Ethics -Do No Harm -Be Open and Honest About your Work -Obtain Informed Consent and Permissions -Weigh Competing Ethical Obligations -Make Results Accessible -Protect and Preserve Records Adaptation refers to the processes by which organisms cope with environmental forces and stresses Archaeology reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behavior and cultural patterns through mater...

Clifford Geertz - Clifford Geertz () was arguably the most influential scholar in promoting interpretive or symbolic analysis as the overall agenda for anthropology as a discipline. . . . Geertz urged anthropologists to move away from efforts to explain and predict, turning toward description and interpretation. Geertz's work has been called 'dramaturgical' because he saw human social life as akin to a drama in which people take roles and play parts on the cultural stage" · What does t...

SOCA 105 EXAM 4 SNYDER WVU LATEST UPDATE GRADED A+ Cultural Anthropology The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. Ethnography The firsthand personal study of a local setting. Emerged as the primary research strategy of cultural anthropologists because in the past many societies had greater cultural uniformity Ethnographic Techniques 1)Direct, firsthand observation 2)Conversation 3)The ge...

Kines 100 Exam Questions with Correct Answers What does Dr. Dyreson claim as the best definition of kinesiology? - Answer-The explanation of human movement How did the Neolithic Revolution change human bodies? - Answer-Bodies were shorter/smaller and health was worse, but lived longer What "foundations" of the field of kinesiology did Kines 100 explore? - Answer-Physical activity in health,wellness, quality scientific foundations of physical activity, cultural/historical, philoso...

chapter 1 In other words, cultures can only be understood relative to the _____(1)______ , _____(2)______ , and _____(3)_______ context in which they developed - (1) historical (2) ecological (3) social What is an armchair anthropologist? - gathering data from travelogues and books rather than own direct research - explain why groups were so different from one another what is definition of cultural anthropology? - the truth is that cultural anthropology is the description, interpretatio...

ATT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Clifford Geertz (Quote) - Answer-"interpretations of interpretations" Clifford Geertz (Quote) - Answer-"Man is an animal susended in web sof significance he himsel fhas spun" Clifford Geertz (Quote) - Answer-analysis of web is not a specific endeavor- "an interpretive one in search of meaning" Clifford Geertz (Quote) - Answer-Symbols function to " resolve basic social contradictions, reflect to communicate culture"...

The lens through which one reads any text, including scripture, is called a _____________________. - Answer-Hermeneutic Given the West's move into postmodernity, we listed in class three responses to this situation (as listed by sociologist Clifford Geertz). They are _________________, ____________________, and ____________________. - Answer-Pluralism, Parochialism, Particularism Christians engage in a variety of communal activities that form (and reform) who we are, and assume beliefs ab...

chapter 1 - "the truth is that cultural anthropology is the ____(1)______, interpretation, and _____(2)_____ of similarities and differences in human cultures." - (1)description (2)analysis what is definition of cultural anthropology? - the truth is that cultural anthropology is the description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures. what are the 4 subfield of anthropology? - archaeology cultural/social physical/biological linguistics what is ...

anthropology - study of humans and their products across time and space holistic - study of the whole human condition: past, present, and future; biology, nature and culture comparative - examines all societies, simple and complex, local and global cross-cultural perspective adaptation - organisms change in order to fit in cultural adaption - specific diet and clothing adaption genetic adaption - larger barrel chest of native highlanders adaption short term adaption - increased...

KINES 100 Exam Questions and Correct Answers The famous photographer who took the pictures at Manzanar that were published in magazines and newspapers - Answer-Ansel Adams In the first half of the twentieth century, what was the most popular sport in the United States and Japan? - Answer-Baseball What is baseball a symbol of? - Answer-Trying to find common ground during WWII What is Kinesiology? - Answer-The explanation of human movement What was Penn State's original name -...