UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10)
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1. Ethnocetnrism: assuming that one's own way of life is the best and using it as
the measure for judging others
2. Society: -organized human groups that are held together by subtle structures that
can be studied
-Internally differentiated by categories though which human interaction is conducted
and makes sense
3. Culture: complex and patterned ways that people have learned to live and under-
stand their lives as parts of groups
4. Enculturation: the process of learning culture, formal and inchoate
5. Cultural Critique: defamiliarization from one's own cultural context in order to
unsettle one's assumptions about society and culture (reflection through distance)
6. Cultural production: culture is not static or given, people make culture in relation
to their environments (human creativity, cultural change, power)
ex:cock fight
7. Anthropology: making the strange familiar
8. Fieldwork methods: -observation
-interviewing
-conversation
-genealogies/networks
-topic-specific data collection
9. Emic: from the perspective of someone in a community
10. etic: from analyst's outside perspective
11. Institutions: organized elements of society, a form of social organization
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
12. Holistic: cultural complexity requires attention to many facets of life, such as
politics, religion, economy and more
13. Theory: set of concepts about an area of concern that help to explain, predict,
define
14. Cultural Evolution: savagery -> barbarism -> civilization
stages of development
15. Historical Particularism: -culture determines human variation in behavior and
personality
-study cultural phenomena in local detail/context in order to understand their histor-
ical development
16. cultural Materialism: -material conditions of existence determine social rela-
tions that, in turn, are reflected and reinforced by ideas and beliefs
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17. stucturalism: -culture expresses universal human need to organize the world
through categoris and symbols
18. Symbolic Anthropology: -study of how people make and communicate mean-
ing through symbols
-examine symbols in their social and cultural context
19. Interpretive Anthropology: -approaches culture as texts, analyzing symbols
and meanings in culural and historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
20. Cultural Appropriation: Importance of symbols and cultural production, need
to understand historical context of symbol
21. Life cycle: divison of life course into meaningful segments/stages
-stages not always obvious
ex: maasi
22. social reproduction: -processes by which a society reproduces itself over time
-reproduction not just at an individual level
23. social person: "someone who is created in part by others"
24. affines: related by marriage
25. cognates: sharing descent
26. exogamy: marry outside of your group
27. endogamy: marrying within your group
28. ritual: -formal activities: stylized, repetitive, express beliefs of group, create
sense of continuity, belonging
-perfomed in special places/ways
-have significant value
29. rites of passage: -transition from one stage of life to another
30. exchange: -relations among thinngs are also relations among people
31. Kinship: system of meaning and power that determines who is related to whom
and how
(varies culture to culture)
32. Social Organization: society organizedd by patterns of relationships
33. Social Construction: - concept, category, phenomenon that's developed and
given meaning through social processes
ex: girls play with dolls, boys play with trucks
34. Representation: -how some stand in for a larger group
-how one is portrayed by and to others
-how one represents oneself
35. Obligations of the gift: give, receive, reciprocate
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1. Ethnocetnrism: assuming that one's own way of life is the best and using it as
the measure for judging others
2. Society: -organized human groups that are held together by subtle structures that
can be studied
-Internally differentiated by categories though which human interaction is conducted
and makes sense
3. Culture: complex and patterned ways that people have learned to live and under-
stand their lives as parts of groups
4. Enculturation: the process of learning culture, formal and inchoate
5. Cultural Critique: defamiliarization from one's own cultural context in order to
unsettle one's assumptions about society and culture (reflection through distance)
6. Cultural production: culture is not static or given, people make culture in relation
to their environments (human creativity, cultural change, power)
ex:cock fight
7. Anthropology: making the strange familiar
8. Fieldwork methods: -observation
-interviewing
-conversation
-genealogies/networks
-topic-specific data collection
9. Emic: from the perspective of someone in a community
10. etic: from analyst's outside perspective
11. Institutions: organized elements of society, a form of social organization
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
12. Holistic: cultural complexity requires attention to many facets of life, such as
politics, religion, economy and more
13. Theory: set of concepts about an area of concern that help to explain, predict,
define
14. Cultural Evolution: savagery -> barbarism -> civilization
stages of development
15. Historical Particularism: -culture determines human variation in behavior and
personality
-study cultural phenomena in local detail/context in order to understand their histor-
ical development
16. cultural Materialism: -material conditions of existence determine social rela-
tions that, in turn, are reflected and reinforced by ideas and beliefs
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, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10)
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e1etht
17. stucturalism: -culture expresses universal human need to organize the world
through categoris and symbols
18. Symbolic Anthropology: -study of how people make and communicate mean-
ing through symbols
-examine symbols in their social and cultural context
19. Interpretive Anthropology: -approaches culture as texts, analyzing symbols
and meanings in culural and historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
20. Cultural Appropriation: Importance of symbols and cultural production, need
to understand historical context of symbol
21. Life cycle: divison of life course into meaningful segments/stages
-stages not always obvious
ex: maasi
22. social reproduction: -processes by which a society reproduces itself over time
-reproduction not just at an individual level
23. social person: "someone who is created in part by others"
24. affines: related by marriage
25. cognates: sharing descent
26. exogamy: marry outside of your group
27. endogamy: marrying within your group
28. ritual: -formal activities: stylized, repetitive, express beliefs of group, create
sense of continuity, belonging
-perfomed in special places/ways
-have significant value
29. rites of passage: -transition from one stage of life to another
30. exchange: -relations among thinngs are also relations among people
31. Kinship: system of meaning and power that determines who is related to whom
and how
(varies culture to culture)
32. Social Organization: society organizedd by patterns of relationships
33. Social Construction: - concept, category, phenomenon that's developed and
given meaning through social processes
ex: girls play with dolls, boys play with trucks
34. Representation: -how some stand in for a larger group
-how one is portrayed by and to others
-how one represents oneself
35. Obligations of the gift: give, receive, reciprocate
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