ANTH 100: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Dr. Anne J. Goldberg Student: Florencia Aguirre September 19th‚ 2012 Katherine A. Dettwyler - Dancing Skeletons: Life and death in West Africa (1994) Review In 1995‚ Dancing Skeletons was given the Margaret Mead Award by the American Anthropological Association. It is presented to anthropologists whose work was able to interpret “anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly
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international business. Cross-cultural risk is a situation that causes cultural misunderstanding that puts some human value at stake. It could be differences in language‚ lifestyles‚ mindsets‚ customs or religion. Cross-cultural risk is aggravated by ethnocentric orientation‚ which is when we use our own culture as the standard. Polycentric orientation denotes a host-country mindset in which the manager acquires a strong like-mindedness with the country he or she is doing business with. Geocentric is what
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In contrast to the Diversity Day episode of The Office‚ the film Crash depicts harsh examples of intercultural incompetence. In the beginning of the film‚ certain characters hold specific biases of other races and their own. Throughout the course of the film‚ some characters come to realizations about their personal and cultural identity and learn to interact competently with members of other cultures. After dinner with her husband‚ Jean seeing two black men walking nearby and clings to her husband
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bones‚ teeth‚ and shells. Cave walls were often painted with naturalistic scenes of animals. Clay was also modeled. From our culture’s perspective‚ these symbolic and naturalistic representations would be referred to as art. However‚ that is an ethnocentric projection. For the people who created this art‚ it was most likely thought of as being something different or more than what we think of as art. Upper Paleolithic European representational art began by 40‚000 years ago and became intense 15‚000-10
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China. If proven to be true‚ the Chinese firm has engaged in: (Points : 1) industrial protectionism a low labor cost strategy dumping exchange rate manipulation 5. (TCO 1) Foreigners sometimes comment on the ethnocentric attitudes of U.S. businesspeople. This indicates that American businesspeople: (Points : 1) follow the philosophy of "when in Rome‚ do as the Romans do" quickly accept the suggestions and ideas of others believe their culture
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Relativism and Universalism Richard A. Shweder As the moral philosopher David Wong has noted (2006: xi): “The standard characterizations of [moral] relativism make it an easy target and seldom reveal what really motivates people who are attracted to it. Introductory textbooks in ethics frequently portray the view as an extreme variety of subjectivism (or conventionalism) in which anything goes – a person’s (or group’s) accepting that something is right makes it right for that person (or group)
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Many Cultural Worlds: Subcultures and Countercultures A subculture can be defined as a set of cultural characteristics shared among a group within a society that (1) are distinct in some ways from the larger culture within which the group exists‚ but (2) also have some features in common with the larger culture. Some case studies can include: Hip-Hop‚ Computer Geeks‚ Dead Heads‚ Bikers‚ Ravers‚ Skaters‚ and Goths Subcultures are groups whose values and related behaviors are so distinct that they
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Sociology 1st Test C. Wright Mills- Power. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society‚ and advocated public and political engagement over uninterested observation. Mills biographer Daniel Geary writes that his writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s. In fact‚ Mills popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S. in a 1960 open letter‚ Letter to the New Left. Social Darwinism- not any single well defined
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Outline and assess Feminist explanations of gender equality in the contemporary UK Feminist thinkers such as Anne Oakley will point to evidence which shows the women face more inequality in the workplace and home than men for example it can be seen that more women are in part time employment or the secondary sector as it is described by Barron and Norris than men who are more likely to be in full time employment‚ so women are paid less than men and have lower status. Feminists point to the patriarchal
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conversation about race‚ it demands close inspection. “Crash” is clearly apparent one-way assimilation‚ which had goal to equality but reject by the Indians‚ blacks‚ Asians‚ Mexican-Americans‚ & even many white ethnics because it was based on an ethnocentric ideal of cultural homogeneity. We see a variety of African American men and women‚ several Hispanic characters‚ a Persian family‚ and several Asians. A scene will switch to another only because the initial characters’ story line is intersecting
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