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)
- Anthropology and Culture (First 3 lectures)
- History of Eating (Next 2 lectures)
- Ecuador: History and Foodways
- Tlingit: History and Foodways
- 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:
- Simple new behavior due to experience
- Displacement and self-recognition: communicating about something not immediately present
- 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