Introduction to Ethnology

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

Collective programming of the mind

Question 2

Material vs. Non-Material culture? what are some examples of these?

Answer 2

material culture: things in a culture that are visible
ex. Clothing, cars, stuffies, coffee mugs

Non-Material: things in a culture that aren’t visable.

ex. Language, beliefs or thoughts

Question 3

What is Feild Work?

Answer 3

Observing and collecting information on people, cultures or the environment

Question 4

What is feild notes?

Answer 4

These are notes taken by an Anthropologist when they are in the middle of Feild work

Question 5

What are informants?

Answer 5

People who informs you of events or things

Question 6

Ethnography

Answer 6

a written accounmt of a culture

Question 7

What is Ethnology?

Answer 7

The study of people, relationships and the differences between them

Question 8

Subjectivity, objectivity & Reflexivity

Answer 8

Subjectivity: Influenced on personal experience, bias, views and preferences

Objectivity: Freedom from bias

Reflexivity: Reflection on own biases

Question 9

Different types of interviews

Answer 9

Structured: a interview with set questions

Semi-Structured: interviews with set up questions, but continue conversations

Unstructed: No set up questions, only conversations recorded

Question 10

Informed consent

Answer 10

Getting permission from others

Question 11

participant observation

Answer 11

When the Anthropologist immerses personal;ly in a culture

Question 12

Mapping

Answer 12

diagrams, photos and drawing of surrondings inhabited by people

Question 13

Diamond Jenness’s work

Answer 13

in the 1960s
studied disapearing cultures
he collected thousands of items (artifacts) from the people

recorded hundreds of songs, poems, legends, and stories on wax phonographic

learned to speak Inuktitut

Question 14

Collaboration between Kitikmeot Heritage Society (Nunavut) and Canadian Mueseum of History (Quebec)

Answer 14

artifacts collected are in rotation of Kitikmeot Heritage Society’s tiny museum inside the May Hakongak Cultural Centre and the Inuit peoples

Question 15

International body language

Answer 15

different gestures mean different things.

ex. Handshakes mean a business transaction until the deal is done or a way to associate equals.
ex. swearing/lewd gestures
ex. nodding or shaking head
ex. smiling

Question 16

what do cultural Anthropologists do?

Answer 16

study both past and present of a culture

Question 17

how does one learn culture?

Answer 17

An individual learns through communication and socializatiopn between families and their community