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| is a system of meanings embodied in symbols |
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| it is learned, transmitted, has history, it changes, it is shared,involves debate power politics |
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| learning, sharing history, debate and power |
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| trying to understand a culture without judging or putting your own belief. |
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| one believe in the cnter and judge those around you. your culture is better |
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Myth is not just a story but a reality lived.
it forces morality and contains practical rules for guidence. enforce morality, cuttfied believe,and guidence for man. |
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founded anthroplogy
wrote in the 19 century
wanted anthro to be scientific. |
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understanding our own cultural assumptions
examinging our biases and power relationship |
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| studying multiple sites in oder to get a better understanding. interacting with different homies. |
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comparsion of cultures.
getting info from second hand resources |
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a detailed description of one particular culture.
particepate in oberservation and fieldwork. |
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| primitives do have a religion- animism |
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primitives are more concerned with the practicalties of a daily life.
made distinction between magic and religion |
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attempting to control things you cannot control.
19 century focus on primitive magic |
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| appealing to a higher power when all else fails |
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| father of american anthropology |
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| the use of science and scientific evidence to jusitfy social and racial inequality |
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1. Biological/physical
2. archaeology
3.linguistic
4.cultural |
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| leadership or dominance of a country |
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food from the land (ancestors)
elder sibling
symbol of the foundation of indigenous health and survival. |
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| intergates historical and poltical economic perspectives with cultural knowledge. |
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| social cultural roots of science |
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| science and culture are always overlapping |
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| takes the social role of the family and is the legal marital partner in a woman to woman in the Nuer culture. |
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| where it may be impossible to understand a culture due to cultural differences. |
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| commodity of exchange, mode of payment, standard of value and a store of wealth. |
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| everything can be placed on one scale of value and everything can translated into money. |
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| used to form a better understanding of the natural world. Metaphors in science created by a culture rather than based on science. |
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| interpretation of humans and human life from a stricitly biological point of view. A biological determinist would posit that certain behaviours, and personality traits in general, are mediated primarly by biological factors. |
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| Universial commodification |
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| is the transformation of goods, ideas, or other entities that may not normally be ragarded as goods into a commodity to be sold, traded or purchased |
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| belief that there is no god. |
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| that natural world having human qualities an a connection of animals to the earth. |
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| Science( all of the evolutionary scheme) |
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| the evolution of religion goes from: Magic, Animism, Polytheism, monotheism, science. |
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| the theory that all living organisms and descends from a single cell or organism |
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| the attribution of one cause to the existence of a phenomenon |
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| marriage within one outside of a cultural group |
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| marriage within a cultural group |
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| kinship is traced through the mother |
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| kinship is traced through the father |
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| marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate. |
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| the state of practice of having more than one wife or femal mate at a time |
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| five ways we deal with anomalies |
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1. define as something else
2. physically control the anomaly
3.rules of avoiding
4.label them as dangerous
5. use in rituals to call attention to other states |
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| myth proves a charter for society.religoin serves as a model of faith. religion provides the basis for monarchies. |
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| focuses on the rituals and rights of passage invloved in religion. rituals and practices are seen as giving order to our society. |
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| someting that is seen matter out of place within society. |
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| one testee, one ovary: hermaphrodite |
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| testes and female external genitalia: no ovary |
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| ovaries and male external genitalia |
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