Honorarily continininuing forgotten title-ular tradition: Don't Deck this Shit: The Sequel

1. Participant-observation

Define: In the system, not outside of it. Qualitative research through immersive closeness with the studied population

Ex: Used by Sterk in her fieldwork on prostitution to gain insights into an understudied & underground field

C: Helps address the problem of assuming Western superiority in worldview / assuming there’s a “right” way of living

2. constructionism

Define: What humans take as their empirical reality is largely constructed by their culture and self-perpetuated.

Ex: Race is a construct based on social meaning, not true genetic delineations.

C: Money, beauty standards, social class, and units of time play a large role in the functioning of modern US society; yet they are not essential facets of reality, they are constructed. It can be dangerous to take their truth for granted / cause cross-cultural conflict about what is the “truth.” Discrimination is propagated while claiming to be reality.

3. “nav romano” (Sutherland)

Def: Nav Romano refers to the romani population in the U.S. whose culture involves using multiple US names but only one “nav romano.“

Ex. American names and I.D.’s are often shared among relatives as a cultural practice, but clashes with the U.S. justice system’s expectations. Nav romani are also not directly translateable. False I.D.’s are used without intent of fraud, to protect their community.

C: This practice brings into view that having systems different from what is expected in U.S. culture can be necessary to protect marginalized communities. Seeking to understand first, not punish & impose, is more cognitively and systemically difficult to implement, but is necessary to address intra and internationally to respect all peoples.

(Sutherland uses nav romano to show how anthropology can explain misunderstandings between cultures and reveal how laws designed for one society may unfairly punish another cultural group whose values and social structures operate differently.)

4. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Def: weak version- idea that the language you speak shapes how you think, perceive, and experience the world. Hard version- language determines your thoughts ( impossible to prove)

Ex: language impacts perception through color id. In Russian what we in English call “blue” is split into “light blue” and “dark blue”. Language distinction —> Russian speakers to automatically differentiate between the shades.

Idea of domains, where words are grouped based on language and connotation.

Connection: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that these groups are determined by the language used. This is important because words with similar definitions may be in different domains. For example, nuclear magnetic resonance is a method for determining the nuclear spin of protons (science words that are unnecessary). This method allows for imaging of soft organs, a ground-breaking discovery in medicine, but nuclear is associated with Chornobyl and catastrophes. So, nuclear was replaced with magnetic (since the technique uses magnets, it’s not a wrong replacement), and the technique is known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

5. semantic domain

6. lifestyle marketing

7. emic

8. holism

9. making the familiar strange

10. the “savage slot”

11. open-ended interviews

12. “entrepreneurial lover” vs. “lover

pimp” (Sterk)

13. Assisted Reproductive

Technologies – ART (Inhorn)

14. friendship as “mutual confession”

(Alverson)

15. arbitrariness

16. cultural models (Bonvillain)

17. practice

18. Burqa (Abu-Lughod)

19. to invite critical reflection on

modernity

20. beef (Robbins)

21. “niceness” (Low)

22. gender as “performance” (Rolston

and Cameron)

23. “damsel in distress” (Martin)

24. “Run for the Wall” (Dubisch)

25. “class-based avoidance” (Jackson)

26. “care deficit” (Ehrenreich and

Hochschild)

27. balanced reciprocity

28. C-M-C’

29. “state of exception” (DeLeon)

30. “falling out” (Stryker)

31. shrink wrap solution (McCurdy)

32. recent African origin

33. Teeter-totter vs. stairway models

34. “brandalism” (Luvaas)

35. Islamic finance (Rudnuckyj)

36. Language vs. speech

37. Hijras (Nanda)

38. neglected diseases

39. "time is money”

40. Exchange value

41. “survival of the most entertaining”

(Bielo)

42. “entitlement failures”

43. demographic transition theory/model

44. “making the balance” (Spradley and

McCurdy)

45. medicalization of hunger

46. debt money

47. ViagraTM

48. market externalities

49. organic solidarity

50. social capital

ID format

1. Define

2. specific example

3. Statement of importance / relevance