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Cultural Relativism

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suspending our beliefs to learn about others, methodological tool emphasizing that cultural practices need to understand as a part of the larger symbolic system it is a part of

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7 characteristics of culture

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  1. Learned and acquired
  2. Necessary
  3. Adaptive, designed for living
  4. Maladaptive (ie. environmental pollution)
  5. Non-Ultilitarian
  6. Patterned
  7. Symbolic system
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Bronislaw Malinowski and fieldwork

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Malinowski
- father of anthropology as we know it today
(- born in Poland and studied math and physics at the University of Krakow)
Fieldwork
- goal is to grasp the natives view
- requires being “set down” in the field aka: participant observation

  1. long term
  2. immersion
  3. Specific location, specific group
  4. Avoid missionaries and Europeans
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Participant observation

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type of field work that requires being “set down” in the field

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“imponderabilia of daily life”

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According to Malinowski fieldwork…

  • aka Flesh and blood
  • what people do, minute observations of daily life
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“Corpus inscriptionum”

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According to Malinowski fieldwork…

  • aka spirit
  • natives point of view
  • collection of statements, narratives, folklore, magical formulae collected in native language
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“Termini technici”

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According to Malinowski fieldwork…

-verbatim statements to get at the spirit

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Ethnography

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  • end result of Malinowski fieldwork

- empirical and descriptive results of peoples and cultures

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Degeneration theory/white man’s burden

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a belief that civilization might decline and that causes of decline lay in biological change (Biblical cause for variation, entire species became sterile, weaker, smaller)

the white mans alleged duty to care for non-white indigenious subjects in their colonial possesions

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Progressivism

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all societies started out primitive and were progressing toward a more advanced state of being

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John Locke

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progressivism

-progressed based on experience since the human mind is a blank slate

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immutability of species vs. Darwin

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every species was created by God and will not fundamentally change vs. evolution and natural selection as outlines in “on the Origin of Species”

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Herbert Spencer and survival of the fittest

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survival of the fittest was a phrase coined by ____ ( social darwinism) which means that certain groups/people can be described as “less evolved” and are subject to natural selection like plants and animals

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Unilineal Evolution

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  1. savagery
  2. Barbarism
  3. civilization
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Lewis Henry Morgan

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American social theorist who wrote “Ancient Society” and is created with the theory of unilineal evolution

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Savagery

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first stage of unilineal evolution, promiscuous (NW coast US, Apes, Austrialians Aborigines)

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Barbrism

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second stage of unilineal evolution, polygamous (Pueblo, Iroquois, Maya)

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Civilization

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third stage of unilineal evolution, Monogamous (Greeks, Romans, Europeans)

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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor

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founder of cultural anthropology, looked at evolution of religion (animism, polytheism, monotheism)

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Animism

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the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena

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Polytheism

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Belief in many Gods

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Shakespear in the bush

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shakespear story told to bush people, but many terms such as ghost are not understood.
bush people are not wrong for interperating different because culture is based on experience

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“Voyages of discovery”

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15th-18th century, ferdinand Magellan and spice islands, ponce de leon and fountain of youth, columbus and the new world, entounters with natives show human similarities and differences

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Ferdinand Magellan

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first European to cross Pacific Ocean, discovered the straight, dies in Philippines from natives.

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Spice Island
discovered by Magellan during the first circumnavigation of world
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Airchair Anrhropology
anthropology without field work, cause of unilineal evolution, EB tylor and Lewis Morgan
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Ethnology
the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them. (cultural anthropology)
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monotheism
Belief in one God
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nomothetic
(part of unilineal evolution) generalized understanding of a given case based on law (stereotypes)
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Cesare Lombroso
father of criminology, concept of the criminal type
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anthropometrics
where skulls were measured to point out a criminal type (Cesare Lombroso)
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ideographic
full description of a given case in its own context
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Psychic Unity of Mankind
idea that all humans share a basic mental framework but some need to catch up (part of unilineal evolution)
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“Fist Contact”/Papua New Guinea
Leahy's search for gold and discovered 1 million highland tribes-people. explorers asserted dominance by offering gifts for work and sexual relations. many died trying to fend of white men.
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Franz Boas
father of modern American anthropology; argued for historical particularism, believed all men created equal and each society is different not because of race
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comparative method
an arrangement of social or cultural conditions observed among existing peoples into a series that is then taken to represent a process of evolution
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historical peticularism
The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in specific ways because of their unique histories.
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salvage anthropology
Anthropology that attempted to save whatever was studied from extinction or destruction
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Kwakiut/potlatch
Native American group that lived on the Northwest coast (studied by boas)
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anthropology as a natural science
(experimental science) fieldwork as laboratory of culture, verifiable results, and defined questions
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emile durkheim
- Father of sociology - Major proponent of functionalism - society is like a living organism, mechanical and organic solidarity
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mechanical solidarity
Durkheim's term for the unity (a shared consciousness) that people feel as a result of performing the same or similar tasks
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organic solidarity
social cohesion based on difference and interdependence of the parts ( everyone has different roles)
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functionalism/society like organism
all aspects of society serve a function and are necessary for society's survival
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Bornislaw malinowski
- trobriand islands study - culture is an integrated whole - everything people do is part of larger whole - culture adoptive organism has 7 basic needs - kula ring ceremony shows how functionalism is filled by social and psychological needs of society
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trobriand islands
studied by Malinowski, part of kula ring exchange
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bio/psych functionalism
Malinowski's version of functionalism, studies cultures to determine how they functioned to meet 7 basic needs
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social solidarity
mechanical solidarity (rural, small, simple) vs. organic solidarity (urban, large, complex, industrialized, modern)
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kula ring
a pattern of exchange among trading partners in the South Pacific Islands
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radcliffe-brown
- English anthropologist that pioneered the study of social relations as integrated systems. (structural functionalism)
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structural functionalism
a conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium (not focused on individual but on institutions)
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social structure
system of human interactions, not individual actions (brown)
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function
how the connection between social structure and social life works, rituals and kinship system all maintain social solidarity
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process
the unit of social activity for analysis, identify regularities (ex. rights of passage) and assume those regularities generated continuity over time, the ____ of how we analyze these activity.
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dynamic continuity
normal aging states that older adults usually maintain the same status // individuals die, but institutions do not, therefore they are important to study
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synchronic/dischronic
one point in time in given society (functionalism disadvantage)/ study through time of given society
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the nuer and their cattle
cattle loving pastoralist society in East Africa; cattle have the highest symbolic, religious, and economic value. Cattle are super important, they are used for all sorts of things.
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gaar/rites of passage
rites of passage (cutting of forehead)
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"cow love"
cattle have the highest symbolic, religious, and economic value
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pastoralism and types of
- to move with animals to find herds food - Nomadic moving with animals to find food - transhumance moving in patterns every year based on weather
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evans pritchard
studied Azande (Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande) - the Nuer - rejects natural science anthropology and see anthropology as a humanistic pursuit
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culture and personality school
studied how patterns of child-rearing, social institutions(education), and cultural ideologies shaped individual experience, personality characteristics, and thought patterns.
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margaret mead
- founded culture and personality school - cultural determinist, nurture not nature shapes people - coming of age in Samoa - fought for gay/ women rights and legalization - studied children to translate how America can use her ideas
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"taking note"
film on Margaret Mead, history of her life and why anthropologists should "take note" of how she practiced
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how culture limits gender roles
culture determines gender roles found through study of three primitive societies. found biological predetermination does not effect gender roles. (males are not aggressive in every culture)
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culture as natural laboratory
Idea by Mead fieldwork as a laboratory of culture
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nature versus nurture
Heredity vs. Environment
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Samoa
where Mead studied girls to disprove Hall and found adolesence doesn't exist because sexually active younger, working age younger, and low stress
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adolescence/hall
Hall's theory stating that this is a universal concept and is a time of storm and stress. Period following the onset of puberty, child develops into adult (parents needed to be authoritative)
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anthropological veto/ native instance
one case where universal doesn't work/one group that does things differently. (The uncovering of one exception to a rule)
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Arapesh
new guinean society studied by mead, both gender roles are gentle, utopian society, both genders do equal work.
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mundugumour
society had both sexes showing what we consider masculine traits (aggressive, cruel).
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Tchambuli
society gender roles are reversed from those in Western societies
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Ruth benedict
social scientist who argued that each culture produced its own type of personality and culture is NOT biologically transmitted
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patterns of culture (1934)
Ruth Benedict's book- said society exists in dualities - quiet/calm - party/crazy
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national character studies japan
anthropological studies, chrysanthemum and the sword for japan, japanese are both timid/brave, eager/reserved
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personality writ larg
Personality is applied to entire culture (Japanese are bold and introverted)
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patrilineal decent
a system of tracing descent through the father's side of the family
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patrilocal/matrilocal
settles in the husbands home or community aka bride will live with grooms parents / settles in the mothers home or community aka groom lives with brides parents

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