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202: Religion and Ideology
203: Men in Tahiti and Semai
204: Stratification by gender is a culture practice based on cultural values, not biological factors. Discuss in relation to 2 ethnographies.
205: The Gopalpur
206: The Trobrianders
207: The Yanomamo
208: Gender as an organising concept
209: Peasants
210: Cultural Ecology and Environmentalism
211: The Aborigines
212: Tropical Horticulturalists (Tsembaga Maring and Trobrianders)
213: Two types of division of labour in two different hunting-gathering societies.
214: Society Types
215: Vocabulary/Miscellaneous
216: Problems of Doing Fieldwork: Beals in Gopalpur
217: Case Study- Chagnon entering the Yanomamo Society
218: Problems of ethnographers in an alien society:
219: The Stages of fieldwork:
220: What importance may the sex of the anthropologist have on the ethnographic process?
221: Participant Observation
222: Fieldwork
223: Important Definitions
224: Demonstrate how anthropological theory has shaped the organisation and interpretation of fieldwork data in one ethnography you have studied.
225: Introduction to Anthropology
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201: Myth
Myth- a story describing the origins of the world, some natural phenomenon,
or some aspect of culture, which contains at least one physically or humanly
impossible event or situation. Myths are ofte..
202: Religion and Ideology
Religion can take many forms, there can be a worship of a range of deities
(Gods) or one, or none. God can be constantly intervening, or rarely intervene.
Gods can be punitive or benevolent. They ca..
203: Men in Tahiti and Semai
Tahiti, an Island in Polynesia, has a much less marked differentiation
between masculinity and femininity then most societies. Furthermore, the
Tahitian concept of masculinity does not require men t..
204: Stratification by gender is a culture practice based on cultural values, not biological factors. Discuss in relation to 2 ethnographies.
Social stratification is a system which exists in most societies, and
distinguishes between individuals and/or groups according to their socially-defined
attributes, and gives them different statuse..
205: The Gopalpur
- Men and women in Gopalpur rise with the first light of dawn. The women
stumbles into the black interior of the house and brings out cold food
left over from the day before. The farmer wolfs his li..
206: The Trobrianders
- A man?s wife is thought to become pregnant when an ancestral spirit
enters her body and causes conception. Even after a child is born, Malinowski
reported, it is the mother?s brother rather than t..
207: The Yanomamo
- Yanomamo society is decidedly masculine-
male chauvinistic even.
- Female children assume duties and responsibilities in the household
long before their brothers are..
208: Gender as an organising concept
There is a distinction made between ?sex? and ?gender?:
Sex- the biological category into which a person is born, male
or female, as determined by chromosomal and anatomical characteristics.
..
209: Peasants
Peasants- Typically agricultural people who share the same general cultural
tradition as members of the larger and more technologically complex societies
in which they live. Found in India, China, L..
210: Cultural Ecology and Environmentalism
Cultural ecology- the study of the ways in which different human groups
interact with, and relate to their environment in order to survive and
change (or not to), as human groups.
How the environme..
211: The Aborigines
- There have been people in Australia for some 40,000 years
- The first Australians arrived from Asia. By the time Europeans arrived,
there were perhaps 300,00 of them.
- There were 2 patterns of l..
212: Tropical Horticulturalists (Tsembaga Maring and Trobrianders)
Horticulture- a method of subsistence based on growing crops with simple
tools and technologies
Slash & burn- a form of horticulture in which a plot of land is
cultivated for some years and the..
213: Two types of division of labour in two different hunting-gathering societies.
The division of labour in these hunter-gatherer societies is well balanced,
and is organised to suit the needs of all of the members of the society.
Every member of these societies plays a contribut..
214: Society Types
Hunters and Gatherers- (Aborigines and !Kung San Bushmen)
Band- a group of hunters
These are societies which depend on hunting, fishing, or the gathering
of wild plants to provide their basic food ..
215: Vocabulary/Miscellaneous
The ethnographic process- all of the various activities and research
methods which the anthropologist must undertake in order to obtain a profound
and objective understanding of culture being studi..
216: Problems of Doing Fieldwork: Beals in Gopalpur
What was the topic Beals chose and why did he choose it?
Beals chose to compare two neighbouring villages in India, with one
being irrigated and the other unirrigated. He chose to do this because
..
217: Case Study- Chagnon entering the Yanomamo Society
At first, the Yanomamo did not readily accept Chagnon. He was greeted
by a group of scary men looking hostile and ready to attack him, and had
to endure these men ?examining him? with their hands fu..
218: Problems of ethnographers in an alien society:
Ethnocentrism
Informants
Language
Gender
Hypotheses
Practicalities
Culture shock
Recording information
Acceptance
..
219: The Stages of fieldwork:
Stage 1- Adjustment.
? Coping w/ culture shock and adjusting to the surrounding environment,
and in some cases the idea of not being welcome/being regarded as stupid
or inferior.
? Being cautious ..
220: What importance may the sex of the anthropologist have on the ethnographic process?
There are many factors which can influence the ethnographic process
for an anthropologist, and a very important one is his/her sex. This essay
will examine the different attitudes towards sex, the p..
221: Participant Observation
Used by Malinowski in his study of the Trobrianders.
Used by Chagnon with the Yanomamo.
One of the most popular and widely used research methods is Participant
Observation. Participant observation..
222: Fieldwork
Fieldwork- Working on gathering information, data, research etc. on
a certain people.
Research methods
Quantitative (give number and/or ?yes? and ?no? answers)
? Surveys- a broad overview o..
223: Important Definitions
Acculturation- culture change brought about by contact between people
with different cultures. Usually refers to the loss of traditional culture
when the members of small-scale cultures adopt elemen..
224: Demonstrate how anthropological theory has shaped the organisation and interpretation of fieldwork data in one ethnography you have studied.
The ways in which a society organises itself are often centred around
one anthropological theory which forms a basis for all that is done within
that society, e.g. rituals, ceremonies etc.. This ess..
225: Introduction to Anthropology
There are four fields of Anthropology:
Biological Anthropology- concentrates on the biology of humans, the
evolution of the species, and the study of variation in the behaviour and
physical make-up..
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