Anth 202 Course Overview: Riddle of the Sphinx: The question is sometimes more important than the answer What walks on 4‚2‚3 legs – thinking about humans being as animal. Indexicality ( of 2+2+2=6 then this is an indexical relationship) Indexicality: by looking at what the different parts make up humans‚ we get a sense of the bigger picture. 4 is nature ( what ways are we like animals?) ‚ while 2 is culture We are not the world; we represent it Where does the line (cane) mediate us form
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Religion contributes to social order. Do you agree? By referring to any ONE (1) Caribbean religious grouping‚ show how its beliefs contribute to this feature of society. Relevant theoretical perspectives must be employed in the response. It is in my opinion that religion does contribute to social order. Religious beliefs of one sort or another exist is every known society all over the world. To really define religion you have to look at from either a functional definition or a substantive definition
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MARCUS AND FISCHER Ethnography – concern with descriptions Experimental moment – eccectical‚ free of authoritarian paradigm‚ interpretive‚ anti-establishment; Positivism vs. interpretive SELF-CRITIQUE – discrupts common sens‚ remise en question of assumptions 1. First predicament : sensitivity to cultural difference 2. Second predicament : status of anthropology as a cultural critique (reflection of self through studying alien culture). DUALITY-Palestinian and American‚ Said 50s linguistics
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Totemism‚ it was proven that shared rituals bind individuals together‚ reminding them they are part of a group and reinforcing the idea of ’togetherness’ in society. Moreover‚ other functionalists such as Malinowski‚ Parsons and Bellah‚ all share the same set of ideas that Durkheim has. Malinowski agrees that religion promotes
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com/article/a-brief-history-of-us-police-interrogation-a327152 Heuback‚ J. (2009). Suspect Interrogation: Communication Strategies and Key Personality Constructs. Retrieved from http://www.k-state.edu/actr/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/heuback-thesis_final_120709-editedpdf.pdf Malinowski‚ T. (2008). Restoring Moral Authority: Ending Torture‚ Secret Detention‚ and the Prison at Guantanamo Bay. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/40375781.pdf?acceptTC=true Mount‚ S. (2010). The Miranda Warning. Retrieved from http://www
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What is a myth? It is a traditional story based on ancient beliefs of different communities and having supernatural explanations of facts or natural phenomena. The mythical story is related to religious beliefs‚ for that reason‚ has a ritual character‚ ie presents invariable elements and is distinguished by its durability. The purpose of myth is not to entertain‚ as with the story‚ but to explain the meaning of life. So there are certain subjects such as the origin of man and the universe‚ which
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CHOMSKY AND HALLIDAY’S CONTRIBUTIONS IN LINGUISTICS (Avram) Noam Chomsky is an eminent linguist and a radical political philosopher of international reputation. He was born on December 7‚ 1928 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania‚ USA) where he grew up in a family of Ukrainian and Belarusian Jewish immigrants who had gone through New York before settling in Philadelphia. His father‚ Dr. William Chomsky‚ was a Hebrew grammarian‚ and his mother‚ Elsie Chomsky‚ was a teacher. His father fueled his academic
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Malinowki’s writings on the Trobian Islanders throughout the period of the First World War. In this writing he discussed the rituals involved in the Kula ring in his ground breaking research write up in the book "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (Malinowski‚ 1922). This was shortly followed by the writings in Marcel Mauss’ "The Gift". The text provided an insight into a new way of looking and evaluating the nature of gift exchange (Mauss‚ 1954). Looked at from a non anthropological perspective gift
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of theory to formulate hypotheses. Like empirical research‚ middle range theory was also driven by theory and Merton believed that it could one day lead to a generalized united theory. Merton heavily criticized the work of Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski‚ anthropologists that he believed to be grand theorists. Merton saw inconsistencies with their three postulates and overall
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Chapter. 12 Outline "The Cultural Construction Of Gender and Sexuality" "Differentiating Sexuality And Gender" The biological term‚ Gender refers to the fact that humans are overwhelmingly either male or female. The Organization of cultural activity by gender is pervasive. Every subject that we touch on in cultural anthropology shows the workings of the cultural construction of gender. Sexuality and Gender are the two main parts of the biocultural model The primate
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