Unit 3

Question 1

Communitas

Answer 1

Turner; refers to the ritual fusion of individuals into a collective identity

Question 2

Kaiten-Zushi

Answer 2

Bestor; conveyor belt sushi

Question 3

Epistemological exposition

Answer 3

thinking about the way we think

Question 4

Anti-structure

Answer 4

Turner; side of culture expressed through ritual chaos; both liminality and communitas are components of anti-structure

Question 5

Globilization

Answer 5

Bestor; McDonaldization

Question 6

Hermeuntics

Answer 6

study of symbols

Question 7

Habitus

Answer 7

Bourdieu; our largely unconscious habitual ways of doing things; not neutral, they’re positioned/ situated with culture

Question 8

Panopticon

Answer 8

Foucault; the gaze; living in a surveillance culture; when we think we’re being watched, we behave better/ put on a show

Question 9

Banality of evil

Answer 9

Arendt; every day acts of violence that are “ordinary” because we don’t see them and have no context for them; the Germans disappearing during WWII

Question 10

Levi-Strauss on incest taboo

Answer 10

alliance theory

Question 11

Adjudication of desire

Answer 11

Valentine; desires are appropriate to our culture [borrowed from Foucault]; even privately, we conduct ourselves in relation to our culture

Question 12

Lininoidal/ liminoidal comminuties

Answer 12

Turner; ritual fusion of individuals into a collective identity; ex: middle part of the rite of passage

Question 13

Searching for children

Answer 13

Abu-Lughod; biological clock and how we address wanting to have babies [pray, light a candle, see the doctor]

Question 14

Thick description

Answer 14

Geertz; important symbols and actions have many layers of meaning and the anthropologist must attempt to explain each layer; the anthropologist must describe in full detail that which they might not understand because someone else might be able to make sense of it later so long as all the details are present

Question 15

Deep play

Answer 15

Geertz; why an activity is more important culturally than others; what the activity represents on a larger-scale than what is face-value; cockfights to the Balinese

Question 16

-scapes

Answer 16

Appadurai; framework for exploring the flows and relationships across five global discussions; building blocks of the imagined world

Question 17

Ethnoscapes

Answer 17

Appadurai; landscape of a person; appearance; it’s continually changing

Question 18

Mediascapes

Answer 18

Appadurai; distribution of info [ads, news, tv, documents, etc.]; find something that suits us and find a community that we would have never had access to before [documents on Netflix]; influence

Question 19

Technoscapes

Answer 19

Appadurai; technology and its move across previously impervious “borders;” probably the most powerful -scape

Question 20

Financialscape

Answer 20

Appadurai; distribution of global capital; [debt, financial collapse, unpaid internships]; we can’t escape it

Question 21

Ideoscapes

Answer 21

Appadurai; interconnectedness of images, ideas and terms; [democracy, welfare, rights]; react to term rather than reality [words possess given power]

Question 22

Doxa

Answer 22

Bourdieu; what we as part of a culture/society consider self-evident

Question 23

Hegemony

Answer 23

Gramsci; common sense; hard work will be rewarded but not always

Question 24

Symbolic anthropology

Answer 24

concerned with studying the process by which people give meaning to their world and how this world is expressed in cultural symbols; Geertz, Turner and Douglas

Question 25

Pre-modernism

Answer 25

meaning is possessed by authority and the

individual is dominated by tradition

Question 26

Modernism

Answer 26

rejection of tradition and authority in favor of reason and natural science; linear conception of history — a history of a “real” or objectified world

Question 27

Postmodernism

Answer 27

merging of subject and object – questioning the possibility of impartiality, objectivity, or authoritative knowledge; an avoidance of or challenge to binarisms and dualisms

Question 28

The Ilongot

Answer 28

head-hunters of the Philippines; studied by Rosaldo

Question 29

Multivocality

Answer 29

Turner; the fact that a single symbol can represent many things

Question 30

Mudyi tree

Answer 30

Turner; the Ndembu people; milk tree and symbol of Ndembu society