Anthro 3

the management of resources, including production, distribution and consumption

Subsistence, craft, and mass

How people sustain themselves, especially in regards to how they obtain food (foraging, horticulture, etc)

The making of non-subsistence products with your hands and with minimal use of tools (non-industrialized countries)

Production of numerous standardized items using a high proportion of machinery to workers

formulated, repetitive human action that is both personal and meaningful. highly structured with rules, different than normal activities due to significance

Something (act, object..) that stands for OR suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention (agreed upon), or resemblance.

a set of broad ideas and explanations people have about the world in which they live and their place in that world

the mixing of different worldviews

The extension of a nation's rule or government over a territory and its people which are beyond its own borders

A set of theories in the social sciences, philosophy, and literature that deals with the legacy of colonial rule, and especially its negative impacts on indigenous populations.

comple economic, social, technological, cultural and political changes that have arisen from the increasing interdependence and interactions between people, societies and cultures

Household Production: small-scale production that supplies the immediate household
Workshop Production: large-scale production involving numerous households

Independent: production of items for general consumption
Attached: production of items for elite consumption

Rites of Passage
Religious
Commemoration
Political

1. Pregnancy and childbirth (limited work, naming)
2. Initiation (age group transitions)
3. Marriage
4. Funerary
5. Passage of Time (seasonal festivals)

1. Social Integration (bringing ppl together, group identity)
2. Signifying difference between people (roles, defining a group)
3.Establish or legitimatize authority
4. Remembering past people of events
5. Bring about a desired effect
6.. Communicate information

1. Meanings are public and shared
2. Polysemous (multiple meanings)
3. Meanings are not always understood (easter bunny)
4. Powerful
5. Convey large amounts of information

1. Signify relations between people (wedding ring)
2. Communicate identity
3. Mark social similarities and differences (military)
4. Communicate literal meanings or directions (road signs)
5. Lots of meaning in ritual context

Science, Religion, and Myth

Magic, Witchcraft and Sourcery, Shamanism

They are both supernatural, but witchcraft is more for doing harm. Witchcraft can also be done unconsciously, can be inherited or learned through training, and doesn't have the main elements associated with magic (spell, symbolic act, condition of performer)

To justify/legitimize the social and moral order

To try and understand/contol the outcome when it is otherwise uncertain

To provide a sense of security and comfort while establishing a social and moral order

To explain inexplicable events, especially those relating to misfortune.

1. Effects of colonialism (effects, change, impacts on colonizers/ed)
2. Anthropology's connections with colonial governments (Who benefits from the study, how to avoid negative consequences, ethics)

1. Advances in transportation technology
2. Advances in telecommunications and information technologies
3. Extension and increased power of transnational corporations

1. Ethnoscape (how ppl look, where they're going)
2. Technoscape (how tech has changed, who has access)
3. Finanscape (flow of capital)
4. Ideoscape (pop-culture, music)
5. Mediascape (new, mass media)