ANTHROPOLOGY 1002 SEMESTER 2‚ 2013 ESSAY QUESTION RESPOND WITH 1750 WORDS DUE WEDNESDAY‚ 11 SEPTEMBER‚ 2013‚ 4:00 PM Download and read the article “Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity‚ Market and the Global City‚” by anthropologist Ted Bestor. He writes: “I am particularly interested in the ways in which networks or commodity chains—and the markets they flow through—are inherently cultural in their processes and effects.” Compare and contrast the Bestor article with AT LEAST TWO OTHER
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some of the challenges that archeologists face when examining the city of Herculaneum? It’s an old city so many objects are decaying and are hard to recover. How do you think the archeological investigation of Herculaneum relates to forensic anthropology? In what ways are similar techniques and processes used in both of these situations? Both take pieces and try to put them together and analyze what happened and when. What is surprising about the ruins in Herculaneum? How is this different
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sophisticated and complex All human beings have the capacity to learn language Children who are isolate and not socialized till the age of 6 cannot learn language (feral children) Communicative competence Linguistic Anthropology Focuses on the mechanics of language‚ including: Phonology (phonetics): the general study of the sounds used in speech by means of an internationally recognized system of symbols to represent the various phonetic sounds of speech
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Historically‚ the study of language in society features three perspectives: Geographical perspective (since 19th century)‚ Anthropological perspective (since 1920s)‚ the study of language and culture Sociological perspective (since 1960s). Anthropology‚ sociology A major distinction is made between the geographical perspective‚ also referred to as traditional dialectology‚ and the sociological perspective‚ or modern dialectology. Dialectology as such is the study of dialects of a language
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Social and Cultural Anthropology Studying Cultures: A Blueprint Ethnography: Liquidated an Ethnography of Wall Street 1-31-12 1) Name of the society: Wall Street society 2) Source: Liquidated An Ethnography of Wall Street 3) author or anthropologist: Karen Ho 4) specific location: Wall Street‚ New York City‚ New York‚ USA 5) description of the living arrangements: N/A 6) government: it is governed economically by The Dow Jones Industrial Average which is an index showing how 30 large
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a fruitful task and does “Jenny Peaches” provide an alternative option to convey the visual as a mode of knowing and understanding culture in social research? I would hope to infer that film-making can help to cause intrigue in the field of anthropology‚ looking at specific theories and seeing if this individual film has challenged my view and enhanced thinking. “Greenblatts resonance and wonder” the disused house objects evolve the culture and the nuances of the mother dismissing then re-assessing
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Our earth is made up of many different humans and races. According to Sociocultural Anthropology‚ race is “used to refer to the presumed genetic‚ natural‚ heritable characteristics of a group of people‚ normally based on physical attributes such as skin colour‚ eye colour or hair type”. The vast number of races that live in the world make humans unique…so why does racism exist? Racism is the discrimination or mistreatment of racial groups. For many years‚ racism has existed‚ especially due to race
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affairs and at all times. Anthropologist‚ however‚ argued that such form of anthropological political system is very stable. According to experts‚ this kind of socio-political organization tends to be prone to a cycle of monumental collapse. In anthropology‚ the state is a political institution established to manage and defend a
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Outline of Crime and Custom in Savage Society Who wrote it? * Bronislaw Malinowski * Was born in 1884 in Krakow‚ Austria-Hungary (now Poland) but lived most of his life in Britain * Known as the Father of Social anthropology * Written in 1926 * He did not participate in the activities; he was an observer only * Takes place in the Trobriand Archipelago‚ an island near New Guinea that is inhabited by a Melanesian community * The island has many lagoons and is very swampy
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Chapter 1 The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction (August 19-25) Sociology is the study of human society‚ and there is the sociology of sports‚ of religion‚ of music‚ of medicine‚ even a sociology of sociologists. “Thinking like a sociologist” means applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious thought—like opening this book or taking this class. It requires you to reconsider your assumptions about society and question what you have taken for
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