Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Man
- Society: Community of people living in the same area
- Etic perspective: Outsider perspective and interpretation
- Emic perspective: Local perceptions and explanations
- Cultural ecology: Study of processes in a population making changes in
environment and adaptation
- Population growth: Increase of living beings in a population
- Family: people related by
blood or marriage
- Types
- Monogamy: Exclusive
coupe
- Polygamy:
Multiple spouses
- Polygyny: Several wifes
- Polylandry: Several husbands
- Nuclear: Father, mother, children.
- Extended: Sum of nuclear families united
by blood.
- Affinity: Relationship
linking two groups
through marriage
- Exogamous mariage: Only possible
to marry someone outside one's
social group
- Culture
- Enculturarion: Individual understands and grows
up from society elements given
- Acculturation: Exchanging cultural features alters
own culture
- Ethnocentrism: Judging other cultures for
differing owns' standards.
- Otherness: Identity is
understood with others' diversity
- Mexico
- Regions
- Regionalism: Words characterizing certain
geographic locations, but still sharing the
language
- Central Mexico: D.F., Edo. de México,
Guerrero, Hidalgo. Morelos Puebla,
Tlaxcala
- Northeastern Mexico: Coahuila, Durango,
Nuevo León, SLP, Tamaulipas
- West Mexico: Aguascalientes, Colima, Guanajuato,
Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Querétaro, Zacatecas
- Northwestern Mexico: Baja California, B. C. Sur,
Chihuaha, Sinaloa, Sonora
- Southeastern Mexico: Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana
Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán
- Mexican Identity: A person being born or having its origins from the American Country, Mexico
- Beliefs
- Magic: Unknown powers
affect humanity
- Myth: Story mixing invented and real
elements related to origins of a
culture
- Religion: Specific belief of any god with
exclusive rules
- Profane: Not related or against a religion
- Sacred: Religion aproved
- Anthropology: Study of human beings
- Theories
- Evolutionist School: Progress of humans
reaching to a better self.
- Historical Particularism: Characteristics can
be shared by different societies.
- Diffussionism: Cultures imitate to obtain their
elements.
- Functionalism: Necessary to mantain long fieldworks
to study cultures properly.
- Freud: Influence of psicological traumas or sex events to
develop adults minds in a society
- Neoevolutionism: Natural environment influences cultural
factors.
- French Structuralism: Origin of differences and similarities among
cultures.
- Applications
- Education and Medicine: Beliefs colliding with what is
taught at school. Also, diseases in culture
- Cultural Marketing: Lifestyle in urban places and bussines
- Equity, Equality and Inequality: Examines social and cultural dimension in development
- Social Science: Branch concerned to
humanity and its aspects
- Subdisciplines
- Physical Anthropology: Material characteristic elements
and fossils.
- Archaeology: Remains of past existing cultures
- Anthropology Linguistics: Diversity of languages in groups,
in past and present.
- Cultural Anthropology: Analysis and description of cultures.
- Stages
- Description of cultures and effects on their practices (16th Century)
- Search for scientific laws of evolution of societies and their institutions (19th Century)
- Search for laws of the functioning of societies (20th Century)
- Ethnography research: Extensive
study of daily life aspects in a
culture
- Techniques
- Semi-structured Interview
- Participant Observation
- Testimony
- Life Stories
- Focus group
- Field Diary
- Documents
- Pictures and Videos
- Fieldwork: Direct observation to make a research about groups
- Qualitative Research: Gives answers and explanations of events in humanity
- Individual of human species
which can think and
communicate.
- In this class I learned theory about the researches made to society and the
way the are handled and by who. Likewise, I saw the origins of
Anthropology and it turning into a social science. First, we learned the way
cultures mix with each other, how they do and the effects occurring. Then,
it was the topic of family, the structure, types and relationships. I didn't
expect there to be terms distinguishing polygamy kinds. We saw and
practiced a lot in making investigations, interviews and so. Though it was
interesting obtaining results, I didn't quite feel like learning most of what
we did was the best.
- The subject is supposed to be about social conflicts and not just investigations
or Mexican geography. Truly, this wasn't the area I most enjoyed. The most
stocking and interesting topics I found were the ones really related to conflicts.
Femicide, racism, human rights were my favorite topics. I felt they really meant
something and worth taking conscience. I would've preferred those topic