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Core themes of Anthropology

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By: Jente Koopmans
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Decks in this class (17)

W1C1: introduction
What makes anthropology a distinc...,
Definition of anthropology,
Definition of holism
11  cards
W1C2: history of anthropology
Decolonization of anthropology,
Crisis in anthropology,
Effects of crisis of anthropology
23  cards
W1C3: Fieldwork
Definition of participant observa...,
Strength of participant observation,
Etnograpgic fieldwork is more tha...
13  cards
W2C1: the social person
Four dimensions of human existence,
Toolkit of concepts contains,
Definition of social status
21  cards
W2C2: kinship
Kinship,
Indication relationships in etic ...,
Three different terminologies
35  cards
W2C3: gender & age
Two dimensions of looking at ineq...,
Heteronormativity,
Difference between sex and gender
10  cards
W3C1: class and religion
Three major theories on social class,
Marxism,
Max weber s theory on social class
26  cards
W3C2: politics & power
Most important point,
Most common definition of power,
Structural power
22  cards
W3C3: exchange and consumption
Economic anthropology distinguise...,
Formalist and substantivist appro...,
Different views on value
13  cards
W4C1: religion and agency
Anthropology of religiondifferent...,
Oldest most influential definitio...,
Definition of religion by durkheim
7  cards
W5C1: production
Modes of subsistence,
Neolithic revolution,
Four modes of subsistence
21  cards
W5C2: ethnicity
Why is ethnicity relevant for ant...,
Definition ethnicity,
Three views on ethnicity
14  cards
W5C3: nationalism & minorities
Nationalism,
Gellner on nationalism,
Anderson imagined communities
20  cards
W6C1: climate change
Climate change definition,
Anthropocene,
The sixth extinction kolbert
13  cards
W6C2: religious authority and agency in Aceh
Violence as world making,
Triangle of violence,
Article by khan
13  cards
CTA 16: complexity & change
Indigenisation of modernity,
Cargo cults,
Relative deprivation
15  cards
CTA17: globalisation and migration
Definition of globalisation,
Is globalisation westernisation,
Time space compression
17  cards

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