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WK 16B Ant 302 2015 Final Review
WK 16B Ant 302 2015 Final Review
WK 16B Ant 302 2015 Final Review
Format
Multiple Choice, Matching, and/or Fill in
the Blank Questions
Short Answer Questions
Essay Question over Aint No Makin It
Total Possible Points: 100 (for 25% of
the final grade)
Resources
Robbins Book: Chs. 3, 5, 7 (only the
designated pages)
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power-introduction
Lila Abu-Lughod, Writing Womens Worlds,
intro chapter, ch. 1
Blackboard PDF Readings: Seriff Article
Film: A Small Happiness (film about women in
rural China)
Jay Macleod book, Aint No Makin It
Franz Boas
Karl Marx
Pierre Bourdieu
Benedict Anderson
MichelFoucault
Samuel George Morton
Michel de Certeau
W.E.B. DuBois
Ernst Renan
Stephen Jay Gould
Sir Francis Galton
Descent
Bilateral
Matrilineal
Patrilineal
Matrilocal
Patrilocal
Polygamy
Polyandry
Brideservice
Dowry
Bridewealth
Exogamy
Endogamy
affinity
Ju/wasi Family
Bilateral kinship
Nuclear Families
Bride service at marriage
Occasional polygamy
Primary Relationship: husband and wife
Trobriand Family
Matrilineal Kinship
Extended Matrilineal family (clan)
Bridewealth
Matrilocality
Primary Relationships: Brother and
Sister
Chinese Kinship
Patrilineal Descent
Patrilocal residence
Dowry
Primary relationship: Father and son
Clan Exogamy
Focuses on particularities of
womens everyday lives
Examines how women
negotiate their social life:
question of AGENCYindividual choice
Challenges static,
homogeneous and bounded
idea of culture
Challenges the trope of the
oppressed Muslim woman
Capitalism
Wage labor
Centerperiphery
Social
relations of
production
Commodity
fetishism
Commodities
Early Globalization
Sidney Mintz:
Sweetness and Power
Demonstrates
connections between a
metropolis (England)
and its colonies
Uses a historical
analysis of a commodity
produced in the
colonies for
consumption in Europe
Commodities
Goods that are the
product of social
relations between
individuals at work
Goods whose value
comes from human
labor, which is
invested in their very
form
Development of Unequal
Global Economies
Historically, we begin to see inequality between
nations or geographic regions --particularly
between European nations and non-European
colonies
At the same time, European countries developed
industrialized economies that supplied
manufactured goods to the rest of the world.
Early forms of globalization have evolved over
time into what we now commonly refer to as late
capitalist globalization.
Ernst Renan
Imagined
Community
Benedict
Anderson
Ideology
nationalism
citizenship
New Colossus
Transnationalism
A condition by which people, commodities and
ideas literally cross national boundaries and
are not identified with a single place of origin
Transnational corporations: Corporations in
which business operations, manufacturing,
and marketing are spread around the globe, in
dozens of cities and societies.
Ex: Disney, Coca-Cola, WalMart; Nike:
Dispersed production; centralized control
Nike Corporation
Does not own its own factories
Relies on international team of
specialists to negotiate with
manufacturers, monitor production and
arrange shipment
Caste
Karl Marx
Social
Hierarchy
Integrative
Theory
Exploitative
Theory
Ideology of
Class
Class System
Means of
Production
Surplus value
of labor
capitalism
Scientific
Racism
Structural
Racism
Structural
Inequality
Race
Ideology of Class
A belief that the division of society into classes is both
natural and right.
Because the ruling class controls the institutions that
are responsible for determining how people view the
world (churches, schools, newspapers, media), it can
promote the view that their dominance of society is in
the best interests of all
Concept of Race
What is a race?
A group whose evident characteristics
(phenotypical and cultural) are popularly
believed to be the result of underlying
biological factors or genotypes.
Race
Race is a cultural construction that has
meaning in our lives because we invest
it with meaning.
History of Racism
vote
hold office
attend schools
marry a particular person
use certain businesses
go in certain buildings
even be buried in certain places
Race as a Cultural
Construction
Today anthropologists and most social scientists in
general vigorously dispute the idea of race as
biologically determined
Instead, anthropologists argue that race is not
natural or biological, but socially constructed:
Our ideas about race and racial difference are not a
natural product of innate genetic or biological
differences between groups, but are socially
constructed beliefs that we carry about difference,
which have little scientific or biological basis.
Eugenics
Social Construction of
Intelligence
Premise 1: Intelligence explains how well
people do
Premise 2: Peoples rank in society depends
on their own, innate ability--their intelligence
Premise 3: If it can be shown that intelligence
is inherited, than we can explain why it is that
the children of successful people tend to be
successful and why certain groups--people of
color,immigrants-- are disproportionately poor
Dangers\ous consequences: Discrimination;
Structural inequalities; Eugenics
Structures
Michel
Foucault
Modalities of
Power
Legal Power
Fictive kin
networks
Carol Stack
Disciplinary
Power
Strategies of
resistance
Strategies of
Resistance
Governmentali Philipe
ty
Bourgois
Tactics of
Resistance
Michel de
Certeau
Power vs
Force
Tactics of Resistance
Adaptive Strategies for dealing with Persistent
Poverty
Conditions of poverty and oppression require a
cultural adaptation and resistance built on trying to
compensate for living at economic/political fringes of
society:
This adaptation takes the form of sets of
practices/oppositional styles
Example: Underground
Economy in El Barrio
Mens activities
Street corner car repair
Selling numbers/drugs
Working for unlicensed
contractors
Worker
Takes factory clay and
surrepticiously forms it into
folk figures for his
community
A form of folk art production
that, when seen in political
historical context, can be
viewed as an act of
resistance
Issues in Museum
Representation: 19th century
The Rise of Object-based Epistempology
The role of the Natural History museum
The place of representation of human
cultures in these museums
The metanarrative of progress and social
evolution
Museums as civilizing rituals for new
immigrants: how to be a civilized American
citizen