These are some important terms in the readings since Spring Break. You should understand what they mean.
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Structuralism (Levi-Strauss)
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"Logic of the concrete" (Levi-Strauss)
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Taboo (Douglas)
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Infrastructure and Super-structure (Marx)
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Cultural ecology (Steward)
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Cultural core (Steward)
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ExT ยบ C(White) )
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Etic / Emic (Harris)
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Cultural materialism (Harris)
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Ritual as transducer and homeostat (Rappaport)
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Thick Description (Geertz)
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Semiotic concept of culture (Geertz)
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Ritual condensation (Turner)
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Dominant and instrumental symbols (Turner)
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Liminality (Turner)
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Habitus (Bourdieu)
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Panopticism (Foucault
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Ethnographer as positioned subject (Rosaldo)
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Global ethnoscapes (Appadurai)
Here is a list of the authors we have read this semester, plus a few more that are been mentioned in Five Key Ideas. You should be able to place all these authors on the attached time line (for long-lived scholars, locating them at any point in their productive lives is fine). You should also know what each contributed to the development of ideas in anthropology. Timeline.doc
- Arjun Appadurai
- Gregory Bateson
- Ruth Benedict
- Franz Boas
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Philippe Bourgois
- Charles Darwin
- Mary Douglas
- Emile Durkheim
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- Michel Foucault
- Sir James Frazer
- Clifford Geertz
- Max Gluckman
- Marvin Harris
- Alfred Kroeber
- Edmund Leach
- Eleanor Leacock
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Robert Lowie
- Sir Henry Maine
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Karl Marx
- Marcel Mauss
- Margaret Mead
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
- Paul Radin
- Roy Rappaport
- Renato Rosaldo
- Edward Sapir
- Herbert Spencer
- Julian Steward
- Victor Turner
- Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
- Max Weber
- Leslie White
- Benjamin Lee Whorf
- E. O. Wilson