Jan15th‚ 2008 Cultural Anthropology -Margaret Mead went to eastern Samoa in 1925 when she was 23‚ and spent nine months in the field studying childrearing patterns and adolescent behaviour -Renato Rosaldo the Ilongot Head-hunters -Clifford Geertz: the Balinese cockfight -Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian: what Samoans consider “good and proper body” and the meanings of making babies into “good and proper bodies” Anthropology 025 Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology Ethnographic
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Study guide for Quiz 1 What characterizes naturalistic research? Naturalistic observation is a research method commonly used by psychologists and other social scientists. This technique involves observing subjects in their natural environment. This type of research is often utilized in situations where conducting lab research is unrealistic‚ cost prohibitive or would unduly affect the subject’s behavior. Naturalistic observation differs from structured observation in that it involves looking
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SA 101 Intro to Anthro midterm ---Coming of age in samoa--- (1928) Child rearing and shaping personality Sexuality‚ ‘there’ ‘here’ Popularizing with American students; not concerned with natural functions of life in samoa. Completely different ways of living. America in 1940; the comparison of here and there. Wanted to see how society was shaped. Culture doesn’t simply exist‚ but that cultures were formulated from an early age A study of socialization in a Polynesian island and an explicit
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Cross-cultural studies in the social sciences[edit] Main article: cross-cultural studies The term "cross-cultural" emerged in the social sciences in the 1930s‚ largely as a result of the Cross-Cultural Survey undertaken by George Peter Murdock‚ a Yale anthropologist. Initially referring to comparative studies based on statistical compilations of cultural data‚ the term gradually acquired a secondary sense of cultural interactivity. The comparative sense is implied in phrases such as "a cross-cultural
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-249 Pragmatics 2:3.235 InternationalPragmatics Association LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY: ISSUES AND APPROACHES Kathrvn A. Woolard 1. Introduction This special issue of hagmarl ’cs derives from a day-long symposium on "l^anguage Ideology: Practice and Theory" held at the annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Chicago‚November 1991.1 The organizing premise of the symposiumwas that languageideologyis a mediating link between social structuresand forms of talk‚ if such static imagery
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ANTH 1120 FALL SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW SHEET Exam format: Term definitions (1-2 sentences)‚ short answer questions (3-4 sentences)‚ and longer answer questions (1-2 paragraphs) Exam length: 2 hours Nation-states and identities The nation and identity: how are national identities created and what ensures their success or failure? -The construction of an “other” -The other can live outside or inside the borders of the nation-state -Immigration is another way in which others are produced -Immigrant others
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British Airways plc‚ widely recognised as the largest airline of the United Kingdom‚ has very recently signed an agreement with the Spanish airline‚ Iberia‚ for the merger of the two organisations. The merger agreement‚ when complete‚ will result in the formation of the world’s sixth largest airline‚ in terms of revenues. In Europe the merged airline will rank third in the pecking order‚ behind Air France-KLM and Lufthansa. The new company‚ valued at USD 7.5 billion‚ will be known as the International
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1. Communication is a two-way process. Communication is successful only when the receiver understands the message intended by the sender. Effective workplace communication is very essential for smooth and efficient functioning of an organization. The manager should have proper communication with his subordinates‚ else it will lead to absenteeism amongst workers‚ lower productivity‚ development of grapevine networks in an organization. There should be two-way communication in an organization. Manager
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(2000)‚ ‘Interpretivism and Generalisability’‚ Sociology‚ 34‚ 2‚ 209-224. Williams (2000) considers: Proposition 1: Interpretivists do generalise and this is inevitable – though they may deny the possibility of generalisation‚ or ignore the issue. Geertz (1979)‚ ‘The Balinese Cockfight’ – generalises from a particular ritual in Balinese life‚ to Balinese culture in general Fisher (1993) generalises from a typology of young ‘fruit machine’ gamblers to ‘what it is to gamble’ Williams (2000): examples
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Exam Review: TERMS Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another‚ including the meanings that people give to things‚ events‚ activities‚ and people. Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture. Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture
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