Ace the Test
culture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔of American lineage; symbolic of meaning systems
(e.g. folklore, material acts, linguistics, etc.)
alienation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in the most general sense, a transformative
action of estranging, or state of estrangement (e.g. a cutting off from the
divine, from the state etc.)
four fields of anthropology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔socio-cultural, linguistic,
biological, and archaeology
ethnography - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔genre of writing based on the analysis of
data collected through ethnographic participant-observation
, ethnographic participant-observation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a method of
investigative fieldwork that involves observing and participating in everyday
activities, usually for a year or more
what is functionalism? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔satisfaction of biological needs
what is the role of magic in the Trobrian islands? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔used to
ask for primitive man's wisdom, even though the natives seem to use it for
things they're already efficient at doing
kula exchange - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔exchange of gifts between special friends
what is the meaning of the word "kula" ? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to go
explain the process of the kula. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔groups go on journeys
hoping to return with valuable objects. requires months of preparation,
beginning with building a kula canoe.
mechanical solidarity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔small-scale, "simple" societies
(tradition)
organic solidarity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔large-scale, "complex" societies
(modern)