Cultural Anthropology
por kaley ann ponce
1. Religion
1.1. Religion is a set of beliefs and rituals based on a vision of how the world ought to be and how life ought to be lived, often focused on a super-natual power and lived out in community
1.2. "Throughout human history, economic realities have formed the foundation of social life and have generated society's primary dynamics, including class stratification and class struggle." Guest, K. J. (2020). Anthropology in a Global Age. In Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Third, pp. 560)., Norton & Company.
1.3. What is Religion? https://youtu.be/c5KHDR8jdbA
2. Global Economy
2.1. An economy is a cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available land, resources, and labor to satisfy their needs and to thrive.
2.2. Economic anthropology is the study of human economic activity and relations.
2.3. "The U.S. financial collapse of 2008 and its subsequent impact on other countries indicate a significant shift in the global economy in which the circulation of capital has become the principle means of generating profits." Guest, K. J. (2020). Anthropology in a Global Age. In Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Third, pp. 416)., Norton & Company.
2.4. The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang https://youtu.be/BiSYoeqb_VY
3. Class & Inequality
3.1. Class is a system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society's resources.
3.2. "Each society develops its own patterns of stratification that differentiate people into groups or classes. Such categories serve as the basis for unequal access to wealth, power, resources, privileges, and status." Guest, K.J. (2020). Anthropology in a Global Age. In Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Third, pp. 341)., Norton & Company.
3.3. A Look At Income Inequality In The United States | TIME https://youtu.be/qc7g6Uhi1i4
4. Race & Racism
4.1. Race is a flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups.
4.2. Racism is an individual's thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create or reproduce unequal access to power, privilege, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences among groups.
4.3. "Yet despite consistent efforts over the last century by anthropologists and others to counter the inaccurate beliefs that races are biologically real, race has remained a powerful framework through which many people see human diversity and through which those in power organize the distribution of privileges and resources." Guest, K.J. (2020). Anthropology in a Global Age. In Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Third, pp. 151)., Norton & Company.
4.4. The Origin of Race in the USA https://youtu.be/CVxAlmAPHec
5. Anthropology in a Global Age
5.1. Anthropology is the study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another.
5.1.1. The subfields of anthropology are biological/physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology
5.2. Globalization refers to the worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas.
5.3. "In fact, perhaps our most distinctive characteristic is our ability to adapt - to figure out how to survive and thrive in a world that is swiftly changing." Guest, K. J. (2020). Anthropology in a Global Age. In Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Third, pp. 24)., Norton & Company.
5.4. An introduction the the discipline of Anthropology https://youtu.be/J5aglbgTEig
6. Culture
6.1. Culture is a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared and contested by a group of people.
6.2. Cultural Anthropology is the study of people's communities, behaviors, beliefs, and institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, work, and play together.
6.3. "The elements of a culture powerfully frame what its participants say, what they do, and even what they think is possible in impossible, real or unreal." Guest, K. J. (2020). Anthropology in a Global Age. In Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Third, pp. 38)., Norton & Company.
6.4. Human Origins 101 | National Geographic https://youtu.be/ehV-MmuvVMU
7. Language
7.1. Language is a system of communication organized by rules that uses symbols such as words, sounds, and gestures to convey information.
7.2. Linguistic anthropology involves the study of human language in the past and the present.
7.2.1. There are descriptive linguists, historic linguists and sociolinguists.