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Social Anthropology
Exam 1 , 2nd half
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2010

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David Schneider
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first to say that emphasis on biological kinship is ethnocentric
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Janet Carsten
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studied the Malays-wants to replay 'kinship' with relatedness, people in this tribe related thru feeding, milk, blood
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Adoption not an option in India
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shows that the biological is still the preferred
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Marilyn Strathern
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New Reproductive Technologies destabalize the 'nature' worldview of kinship...show that kinship is a cultural construction
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Kath Weston
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Gay Kinship ideology in San Fransisco in 1980's...enduring qualities of friends over families
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'new genetics'
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finding out past diseases, counter-current: emphasis on biological genetics
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Emphasis on lesbian biological immitation
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shows how counter-current: emphasis towards genetics
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John Borneman
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shows how people try to subvert the biological idea of kinship: German man's legal quest to adopt his gay lover as son: legal caring for
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Evans-Prichard
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Field work with the nier: explored the idea of how the political could be embedded-in this case in kinship
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Jonathan Spencer
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'Post Colonialism and the political imagination'political anthro too preoccupied with the facts and systems rather than values and ideas
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Max Weber
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Definition of Power: the ability to enfore one's will on other people's behavior
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Foucault
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not merely a one-way relationship: the importance of resistance
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Abu-lughod
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ways that women resist power from men
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Handler
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destructive analysis of nationalism , avoid describing nationalism on its own term
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Benedict Anderson
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Nationalism is Immagined Communities ...a group of people who identify with people they have never before met
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Foster
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Imagined Communities of Consumption
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Sir Raymond Firth
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a formalist- influenced by classical economic theory
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Adam Smith
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Wealth of Nations-Capitalism
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Marshal Sahlins
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The Original Affluent Society--also, local cultures more resiliant than thought-"despondancy theory'
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Gift-Giving
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Socially integrating, the opposite of a formal economy
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Potlatch
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Indian competitive gift-giving ceremony
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Veblen
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Theory of the Leisure Class
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Bauman
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Consuming Life
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Miller
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Making Love in the Supermarket
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