Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANT110 - Fall 2007 - Key concepts covered
through 9/28
ethnography
comparative approach
fieldwork:
language
participant observation
strengths and weaknesses
additional methods
Malinowski
rapport
functionalism
"armchair anthropology"
unilineal evolution
cultural relativism
ethical dilemmas
ethnocentrism
exoticism
Natl. Geographic representations
ahistoricism
vsi p. 25; Natl. Geographic
diffusionism
Lowie's four explanations
culture
five contradictions identified by Barth
relationships between cultural and biological diversity
socialization
division of labor
neolocal vs. uxorilocal postmarital residence
positionality