Anthro 4 Final Study Guide Answered
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Indigenous Mexican youth possessed what specific trilingual
skill? (Hint: we demonstrated it in front of class with William
Perez)? - Correct Answers ✅(Trilingual) Language
brokering!
During the Q&A section of William Perez's talk, one of your
classmates came up with a brilliant (and sort of tongue-and-
cheek) description of how Indigenous Mexican youth push
back against ideological processes like fractal recursivity. If
you were in class, you remember it. - Correct Answers
✅Fractal Reversivity
What two fictive personas were used to exclude Angela? How
did Goodwin and Alim describe this process? What was the
stated larger goal of the article? - Correct Answers ✅The
two other girls use "Valley girl" (Cher from Clueless use of
whatever) and "ghetto
girl"(Shenanah from Martin use of neckroll) talk to mock
angela. This process was an example of transmodal
stylization (the ways that a stylist can produce a style that
cuts across various modalities, rather than bringing these
modalities together into a neat, readily recognizable
package). The underlying bullying at this middle school really
showed how this transmodal stylization is embedded within
larger discourses and histories of class, gender, race, and
oppression.
Stancetaking: stylization is a form of stancetaking and
positioning of self and other, but also examines how speakers
, Anthro 4 Final Study Guide Answered
Questions (Latest 2026)
can manipulate the voice and the body, transmodally, to
create local and broader social meaning.
I would focus heavily on Rusty Barrett's chapter and his
lecture in class. We also touched on two concepts related to
indexicality (indexical _______ & indexical ________). This was
meant to push our developing understanding of indexicality
further. At the end of Barrett's lecture, I highlighted both of
these terms as things we might want to celebrate further. -
Correct Answers ✅Indexical Disjuncture- questioning
normative assumptions about gender; Putting things together
that would not typically be put together in a given language
ideology; it's possible to do this because more than one sign
can be used to index a meaning at once
Disjuncture of normative assumptions is a common way of
using language politically to challenge normativity of
sexuality, race etc. (disrupts field of normativity)
Indexical fields- ideologically related meaning
What narratives did students share in Inmaculada Garcia-
Sanchez's videos? Why was this problematic? - Correct
Answers ✅Stories about weddings from their respective
culture. One child was a gypsy, one was Spanish, and one
was Moroccan. The spanish wedding was drawn as the
"normal" while in the other too the differences between the
cultures were highlighted which ultimately underscored the
lack of cultural acceptance.
Questions (Latest 2026)
Indigenous Mexican youth possessed what specific trilingual
skill? (Hint: we demonstrated it in front of class with William
Perez)? - Correct Answers ✅(Trilingual) Language
brokering!
During the Q&A section of William Perez's talk, one of your
classmates came up with a brilliant (and sort of tongue-and-
cheek) description of how Indigenous Mexican youth push
back against ideological processes like fractal recursivity. If
you were in class, you remember it. - Correct Answers
✅Fractal Reversivity
What two fictive personas were used to exclude Angela? How
did Goodwin and Alim describe this process? What was the
stated larger goal of the article? - Correct Answers ✅The
two other girls use "Valley girl" (Cher from Clueless use of
whatever) and "ghetto
girl"(Shenanah from Martin use of neckroll) talk to mock
angela. This process was an example of transmodal
stylization (the ways that a stylist can produce a style that
cuts across various modalities, rather than bringing these
modalities together into a neat, readily recognizable
package). The underlying bullying at this middle school really
showed how this transmodal stylization is embedded within
larger discourses and histories of class, gender, race, and
oppression.
Stancetaking: stylization is a form of stancetaking and
positioning of self and other, but also examines how speakers
, Anthro 4 Final Study Guide Answered
Questions (Latest 2026)
can manipulate the voice and the body, transmodally, to
create local and broader social meaning.
I would focus heavily on Rusty Barrett's chapter and his
lecture in class. We also touched on two concepts related to
indexicality (indexical _______ & indexical ________). This was
meant to push our developing understanding of indexicality
further. At the end of Barrett's lecture, I highlighted both of
these terms as things we might want to celebrate further. -
Correct Answers ✅Indexical Disjuncture- questioning
normative assumptions about gender; Putting things together
that would not typically be put together in a given language
ideology; it's possible to do this because more than one sign
can be used to index a meaning at once
Disjuncture of normative assumptions is a common way of
using language politically to challenge normativity of
sexuality, race etc. (disrupts field of normativity)
Indexical fields- ideologically related meaning
What narratives did students share in Inmaculada Garcia-
Sanchez's videos? Why was this problematic? - Correct
Answers ✅Stories about weddings from their respective
culture. One child was a gypsy, one was Spanish, and one
was Moroccan. The spanish wedding was drawn as the
"normal" while in the other too the differences between the
cultures were highlighted which ultimately underscored the
lack of cultural acceptance.
