Midterm 1 Anthropology Crossword
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
 
 
Down: 1) 'Play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation’.2) A holistic term that emphasizes the certrality of material interest (economy) and the use of power (politics) to protect and enhance that interest.3) Critically thinking about the way one thinks; reflecting on one’s own experience.4) A position that explores how particular social forms function from day to day in order to reproduce the traditional structure of the society.5) The characteristic form of social organization found among foragers; a small group of people, usually with less than 50 members. Labor is divided according to age and sex, and social relations are highly egalitarian.6) Stories whose truths seem self-evident because they do such a good job of integrating our personal experiences with a wider set of assumptions about the way society, or the world in general, must operate.10) ‘Correct doctrine’; the prohibition of deviation from approved mythic texts.15) A stratified society that possesses a territory that is defended from outside enemies with an army and from internal disorder with police. It has a separate set of governmental institutions, designed to enforce laws and collect taxes and tribute, is ran by an elite that possesses a monopoly on the use of force.17) The process of building a bridge of understanding between anthropologist and informant so that each can begin to understand the other.21) The enduring aspects of the social forms in a society, including its political and kinship systems.22) The persistence of profound social and economic entanglements linking former colonial territories to their former colonial rulers despite political sovereignty.25) ‘Correct practice’; the prohibition of deviation from approved forms of ritual behavior.26) An economic system dominated by a supply and demand market designed to create capital and profit.27) A ritual that serves to mark the movement and transformation of an individual from one social position to another.30) The ambiguous transitional state in a rite of passage in which the person or persons undergoing the ritual are outside their ordinary social positions.32) ‘A physically exertive activity that is aggressively competitive within constraints imposed by definitions and rules. Across: 7) A form of social organization generally larger than a band; members usually farm or herd for a living. Social relations in a tribe are relatively egalitarian, although there may be a chief who speaks for the group or organizes group activities.8) Ethnographic research on cultural processes that are not contained by social, ethnic, religious, or national boundaries in which the ethnographer follows the process from site to site, often doing fieldwork in sites and with persons that were traditionally never subject to ethnographic analysis.9) The cultural domination of a people by larger, wealthier powers.11) Classification systems based on systematic organization into types on the basis of shared attributes.12) Particular features or parts of a cultural tradition such as a dance, ritual, or style of pottery.13) A form of social organization in which the leader (a chief) and the leader’s close relatives are set apart from the rest of the society and allowed privileged access to wealth, power, and prestige.14) The feeling of physical and mental dislocation/discomfort a person experiences when in a new or strange cultural setting. It can manifest most deeply on returning ‘home’, with home seeming exceedingly strange after extended stays in the fieldwork situation.16) A cognitive boundary that marks certain behaviors as ‘play or as ‘ordinary life’.18) A framing that is consciously adopted by the players; somehow pleasurable; and systemically related to what is non-play by alluding the non-play world and by transforming the objects, roles, actions, and relations of ends and means characteristic of the none-play world.19) A repetitive social practice composed of a sequence of symbolic activities in the form of a dance, song, speech, gestures, or the manipulation of objects, adhering to a culturally defined ritual schema and closely connected to a specific set of ideas that are often encoded in myth.20) Knowledge about reality that is absolute and true for all people, in all times and places.23) The limits of borrowing, or the diffusion, of a particular cultural trait or set of traits.24) The view that there is a reality ‘out there’ that can be detected through the senses and that there is a single, appropriate scientific method for investigating that reality.28) Critically thinking about the way one thinks; reflecting on one’s own experience.29) An unstructured or minimally structured community of equal individuals frequently found in rites of passage.31) Communicating about the process of communication itself.33) A nineteenth-century theory that proposed a series of stages through which all societies must go (or had gone) in order to reach civilization.34) A widely accepted observation, a taken-for-granted item of common knowledge. They do not speak for themselves; only when they are interpreted and placed in a context of meaning do they become intelligible.35) The shared, public symbolic systems of a culture.
 

 

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