ANTH 205 Lecture 13

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Review Session


Notes on Exam

  • Covers 9 lectures and readings (not counting intro day and 2 movie days)
  • Movies will be extra credit
  • Look for things that are repeated in readings and in classes
  • Italicized words are always a good thing to look for.
  • Think!
  • 50 Questions plus a few short answer
  • Sections (not equally represented)
    1. Anthropology and Culture (First 3 lectures)
    2. History of Eating (Next 2 lectures)
    3. Ecuador: History and Foodways
    4. Tlingit: History and Foodways
    5. Readings

Vocabulary

(See ANTH 205 Lecture 1→)


ethnography
collection of cultural data
characteristic of cultural anthropologists
ethnology
comparison and analysis of collected data (ethnography)
characteristic of cultural anthropologists
holistic
studies all of human existence: all time, all aspects (integrated and interconnected)
comparative
look at peoples across time and space
form generalizations about Homo sapiens
emic
insider's perspective
what people believe about themselves
etic
outsider's perspective
what can be learned about culture regardless of what people believe about themselves
ethnocentrism
viewing one's culture as superior
using own cultural values to judge behovior/beliefs of other culture
cultural lens / cultural bias
stereotyping
a form of ethnocentrism
failure to recognize diversity in a culture
cultural relativism
(remedy to / antithesis of) ethnocentrism and stereotyping
argument that behovior in a popular culture should not be judge


Types of Anthropology

(See ANTH 205 Lecture 1→)


  • Cultural Anthropology (inside academia)
  • Archaeology (history)
  • Biological (Physical) Anthropology
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Applied Anthropology (outside academia)


Culture

  • A learned trait
  • common to humans and some animals
  • More Mestizos than white or native

3 types of learning:

  1. Simple new behavior due to experience
  2. Displacement and self-recognition: communicating about something not immediately present
  3. Meta-mind: ability to thing about thinking and communicate it to others

Important Dates

Note: Y = (C − 1) × 100
  • Agricultural Revolution: 11 Kya
  • Spanish Invasion: 1500s (16th Century)

Ecuador

Inca

Mita system
tribute labor to the empire
not slavery, allowed conquered people to sustain themselves
did not impose culture

Encomienda system

Spanish take role of conquerors
attempt to wipe out culture and make Inca into Spanish

Huayna Capac divided empire between sons

  • Atahualpa (North; Quito; baby)
  • Huáscar (South; Cuzco; legitimate successor)

3 year civil war in 16th century

Tlingit

Moieties

  • membership to one of two ancestral lineages
  • Determines who you should/shouldn't marry

Each moiety has a set of clans