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Cultural Relativism
can’t use your own norms to judge another community, you must understand that all humans see the world through the lens of their own culture; not judging a culture to our own standards of what is strange/normal or right/wrong
Ethnocentrism
the concept that you bring your own culture’s values, and use them as the standard of morality/terminology/practice for other cultures, opposes cultural relativism
Armchair anthropology
observing a society from an outside/non-involved perspective, merely doing research and not immersing oneself in another culture
Participant observation
living in a community, speaking their language, and trying to understand it from their point of view, an immersive technique
Rapport
a close, harmonious relationship in which people completely understand each other, trust goes both ways
Rapport example
Police came to cock fight and Geertz acts like he’s been there the entire time, integrates himself with Balinese people
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ worldview or cognition
Linguistic Relativity example
Different words for aunt/uncle in different languages reflects society and values
Cultural Access
Depending on your access to culture, you can still study the culture, but maybe not the same way you hoped
Code-switching
the concept that the way in which you present yourself switches from context to context
Code-switching example
the way you talk in professional settings is different from how you act around your friends
Shape-shifting
a choice to try on different behaviors with a playful and experimental mindset, more retaining of who you are, not letting a dominant social norm define who you are because that norm cannot be changed
Shape-shifting example
push back in ways that make you less subject to assumptions placed on you, Black female genealogies and storytelling leads to cultural transformation through empowerment
First contact
in the film Arrival, she say she can’t just work with audio file (arm-chair anthropology), need to “be there” to meet them (immersive anthropology)—> military and linguist have different ideas of first contact
Thick description
A description of human social action that describe not just physical behaviors, but their context as interpreted by the actors as well, so it can be better understood by an outside
Thick description example
winking—> how do we know what it means?
How does race come to be real?
Structural racism, science, law, sports, language, education, REDLINING
Redlining
classifying certain areas (green/red) depending on the property value of homes in an area, houses in redlined districts have lower value—> less funded schools —> poorer education—> racial gap grows
Social Fact
a changeable reality that exists before us that we must abide by, can create personal meaning for a social fact but there are constraints
Emotional apprenticeship
Learning how to be vulnerable and open to learning from your interviewees and the subgroup you are living amongst
Emotional apprenticeship example
People that Ring is living with are teaching her, becomes a way to learn how to be Pakistani
Reflexivity
how does the anthropologist reflect on themselves and their discomforts in a different cultural setting
Culture
you are not born knowing culture, it is taught and learned, change is the only constant of culture
Tradition
implies that something is learned from those who have already learned it
Mental Map of Reality
a frame of intelligibility, some things only make sense within a certain framing of it, mentally things fit in a certain place and you try to assimilate and include in the most similar/closest category
Language
a system of communication that uses symbols (words, sounds, and gestures) to convey information
Sociolinguistics
study of the ways in which culture shapes language and vice versa, intersection of language with cultural categories and systems of power as age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, etc
Museums as method
any object that you encounter in a museum because of a series of decisions that were made to put an object in the museum, bundle of relations (talking about who used the object and how to help describe culture)
Exploded Object
using the method of looking at an object in great detail and tracing its history, story, process, who is involved with it, etc to say more about how ti comes ot be what it is
Slang
language particular to a certain group of people, shows flexibility of culture, expansive nature of culture, while also remaining the same (language doesn’t change)
Social functionalists
how societies function and what holds it together
Encounter
meeting an object, seeing it for the first time (both actually and metaphorically)
Captioning
What a museum lists as the caption for a piece and what other pieces are placed around it influence your view of that object or a particular culture