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1. Ethnocentrism assuming that one's own way of life is the best and
using it as the measure for judging others
2. Society -organized human groups that are held together by
subtle structures that can be studied
-Internally differentiated by categories though which
human interaction is conducted and makes sense
3. Culture complex and patterned ways that people have learned
to live and understand their lives as parts of groups
4. Cultural Critique defamiliarization from one's own cultural context in or-
der to unsettle one's assumptions about society and
culture (reflection through distance)
5. Cultural production • Culture is not static or given
• People creatively produce/shape
culture in relation to their
environments (including other
people)
• A power-laden process
• Creativity within constraint
6. Fieldwork methods • Observation
- Participant observation
• Interviewing
• Conversation
•Genealogies/networks
• Topic-specific data collection
• Others include archival research, analysis of
myth and text, etc.
7. Emic from the perspective of someone in a community
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8. etic from analyst's outside perspective
9. Ethnography Often used as another term for
anthropological fieldwork
10. Institutions organized elements of society, a form of social organi-
zation
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
11. Holistic cultural complexity requires attention to many facets of
life, such as politics, religion, economy and more
12. Historical Particularism -culture determines human variation in behavior and
personality
-study cultural phenomena in local detail/context in
order to understand their historical development
13. cultural Materialism -material conditions of existence determine social rela-
tions that, in turn, are reflected and reinforced by ideas
and beliefs
14. Structuralism • Culture expresses universal human need to
organize the world through categories and
symbols
• Emphasizes structural aspects of cognition and
symbolism in the organization of societies and
beliefs
• Structures of meaning
• Goal is to delineate system of rules
15. Symbolic Anthropology -study of how people make and communicate meaning
through symbols
-examine symbols in their social and cultural context
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16. Interpretive Anthropology -approaches culture as texts, analyzing symbols and
meanings in culural and historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
17. Cultural Appropriation Importance of symbols and cultural production, need
to understand historical context of symbol
18. Life cycle Division of the life course into meaningful seg-
ments/stages Stages not obvious nor universal
Not necessarily linear
Social, not only individual
19. Social and Cultural Citizenship Citizenship not just about legal status
but also social & cultural life (in 2
senses):
- Citizenship isn't culturally neutral but tends to
produce and reinforce certain ways of life
(citizenship shapes cultural life). Aihwa Ong
- Cultural life as a major force behind civic
action, especially for minority groups (cultural
forces shape citizenship). Renato Rosaldo et al.
20. social reproduction -processes by which a society reproduces itself over
time
-reproduction not just at an individual level
21. social person "someone who is created in part by others"
22. affines related by marriage
23. cognates sharing descent
24. exogamy marry outside of your group
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. Ethnocentrism assuming that one's own way of life is the best and
using it as the measure for judging others
2. Society -organized human groups that are held together by
subtle structures that can be studied
-Internally differentiated by categories though which
human interaction is conducted and makes sense
3. Culture complex and patterned ways that people have learned
to live and understand their lives as parts of groups
4. Cultural Critique defamiliarization from one's own cultural context in or-
der to unsettle one's assumptions about society and
culture (reflection through distance)
5. Cultural production • Culture is not static or given
• People creatively produce/shape
culture in relation to their
environments (including other
people)
• A power-laden process
• Creativity within constraint
6. Fieldwork methods • Observation
- Participant observation
• Interviewing
• Conversation
•Genealogies/networks
• Topic-specific data collection
• Others include archival research, analysis of
myth and text, etc.
7. Emic from the perspective of someone in a community
, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10) UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
8. etic from analyst's outside perspective
9. Ethnography Often used as another term for
anthropological fieldwork
10. Institutions organized elements of society, a form of social organi-
zation
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
11. Holistic cultural complexity requires attention to many facets of
life, such as politics, religion, economy and more
12. Historical Particularism -culture determines human variation in behavior and
personality
-study cultural phenomena in local detail/context in
order to understand their historical development
13. cultural Materialism -material conditions of existence determine social rela-
tions that, in turn, are reflected and reinforced by ideas
and beliefs
14. Structuralism • Culture expresses universal human need to
organize the world through categories and
symbols
• Emphasizes structural aspects of cognition and
symbolism in the organization of societies and
beliefs
• Structures of meaning
• Goal is to delineate system of rules
15. Symbolic Anthropology -study of how people make and communicate meaning
through symbols
-examine symbols in their social and cultural context
, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10) UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
16. Interpretive Anthropology -approaches culture as texts, analyzing symbols and
meanings in culural and historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
17. Cultural Appropriation Importance of symbols and cultural production, need
to understand historical context of symbol
18. Life cycle Division of the life course into meaningful seg-
ments/stages Stages not obvious nor universal
Not necessarily linear
Social, not only individual
19. Social and Cultural Citizenship Citizenship not just about legal status
but also social & cultural life (in 2
senses):
- Citizenship isn't culturally neutral but tends to
produce and reinforce certain ways of life
(citizenship shapes cultural life). Aihwa Ong
- Cultural life as a major force behind civic
action, especially for minority groups (cultural
forces shape citizenship). Renato Rosaldo et al.
20. social reproduction -processes by which a society reproduces itself over
time
-reproduction not just at an individual level
21. social person "someone who is created in part by others"
22. affines related by marriage
23. cognates sharing descent
24. exogamy marry outside of your group
