Review Sheet: Unity Of Heart And In Search Of Respect
EXAM TIME:
WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH, FROM 2-5 PM
IN THIS ROOM
Second Exam Review Sheet
Think about the two ethnographies we have read: Unity of Heart and In Search of Respect. How does each author go about writing their ethnography? How do they present the people they are studying? How do they place themselves into the ethnography?
How does the cognatic descent system of the Nanumea reinforce their egalitarian culture?
The cognatic system is an inheritance system that encourages people to distribute the land evenly over resources.
How does the marginal landscape of Nanumea shape Nanumean culture?
What does the title Unity of Heart refer to and how does it represent the main argument of the authors?
Unity of heart as …show more content…
Something(s) are seen as the essential character of an individual or a culture; it cannot change and is often tied to racism. Narratives of essentialism have a lot of power
Ex. race
What is the difference between identity and culture? What is a nation? What is a state? What is a nation-state?
A nation typically refers to a group of people with a shared language, background, origin, cultural practices and tradition – often mobilized for political authority
The state is a centralized and bureaucratized political unit whose control extends across a given territory
How do movements of people such as diasporas challenge traditional views of cultures being located in particular places? ex. The jewish has lived for 200 years without having a control of a geographic area, but still maintains their cultural and religious identity
people can maintain its distinctive culture, its difference, wihout controlling land, a fortiori without controlling other people, and developing a need to dispossess them of their lands
indigenous – a political claim based on the idea whose land it rightfully is
autochthony – a natural connection to the land, that place to which has always been from, the right to the land is seen not as a political claim but a natural …show more content…
Dislocations and disjunctures occur when these flows do not line up
The Chinese-Central American Beauty Pageant – what does this tell us about identities, practices of creating communities, and the embodiment of culture
How does In Search of Respect highlight the ethical challenges of doing ethnographic fieldwork?
Why does he title the book In Search of Respect?
What is the tension between structure and agency in cultural anthropology and how does In Search of Respect highlight this
WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH, FROM 2-5 PM
IN THIS ROOM
Second Exam Review Sheet
Think about the two ethnographies we have read: Unity of Heart and In Search of Respect. How does each author go about writing their ethnography? How do they present the people they are studying? How do they place themselves into the ethnography?
How does the cognatic descent system of the Nanumea reinforce their egalitarian culture?
The cognatic system is an inheritance system that encourages people to distribute the land evenly over resources.
How does the marginal landscape of Nanumea shape Nanumean culture?
What does the title Unity of Heart refer to and how does it represent the main argument of the authors?
Unity of heart as …show more content…
Something(s) are seen as the essential character of an individual or a culture; it cannot change and is often tied to racism. Narratives of essentialism have a lot of power
Ex. race
What is the difference between identity and culture? What is a nation? What is a state? What is a nation-state?
A nation typically refers to a group of people with a shared language, background, origin, cultural practices and tradition – often mobilized for political authority
The state is a centralized and bureaucratized political unit whose control extends across a given territory
How do movements of people such as diasporas challenge traditional views of cultures being located in particular places? ex. The jewish has lived for 200 years without having a control of a geographic area, but still maintains their cultural and religious identity
people can maintain its distinctive culture, its difference, wihout controlling land, a fortiori without controlling other people, and developing a need to dispossess them of their lands
indigenous – a political claim based on the idea whose land it rightfully is
autochthony – a natural connection to the land, that place to which has always been from, the right to the land is seen not as a political claim but a natural …show more content…
Dislocations and disjunctures occur when these flows do not line up
The Chinese-Central American Beauty Pageant – what does this tell us about identities, practices of creating communities, and the embodiment of culture
How does In Search of Respect highlight the ethical challenges of doing ethnographic fieldwork?
Why does he title the book In Search of Respect?
What is the tension between structure and agency in cultural anthropology and how does In Search of Respect highlight this