Man

Man

Society: Community of people living in the same area
1. Etic perspective: Outsider perspective and interpretation
2. Emic perspective: Local perceptions and explanations
3. Cultural ecology: Study of processes in a population making changes in environment and adaptation
4. Population growth: Increase of living beings in a population
Family: people related by blood or marriage
1. Types
  1. Monogamy: Exclusive coupe
  2. Polygamy: Multiple spouses
    1. Polygyny: Several wifes
    2. Polylandry: Several husbands
  3. Nuclear: Father, mother, children.
  4. Extended: Sum of nuclear families united by blood.
2. Affinity: Relationship linking two groups through marriage
3. Exogamous mariage: Only possible to marry someone outside one's social group
Culture
1. Enculturarion: Individual understands and grows up from society elements given
2. Acculturation: Exchanging cultural features alters own culture
3. Ethnocentrism: Judging other cultures for differing owns' standards.
4. Otherness: Identity is understood with others' diversity
5. Mexico
  1. Regions
    1. Regionalism: Words characterizing certain geographic locations, but still sharing the language
    2. Central Mexico: D.F., Edo. de México, Guerrero, Hidalgo. Morelos Puebla, Tlaxcala
    3. Northeastern Mexico: Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, SLP, Tamaulipas
    4. West Mexico: Aguascalientes, Colima, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Querétaro, Zacatecas
    5. Northwestern Mexico: Baja California, B. C. Sur, Chihuaha, Sinaloa, Sonora
    6. Southeastern Mexico: Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán
  2. Mexican Identity: A person being born or having its origins from the American Country, Mexico
Beliefs
1. Magic: Unknown powers affect humanity
2. Myth: Story mixing invented and real elements related to origins of a culture
3. Religion: Specific belief of any god with exclusive rules
  1. Profane: Not related or against a religion
  2. Sacred: Religion aproved
Anthropology: Study of human beings
1. Theories
  1. Evolutionist School: Progress of humans reaching to a better self.
  2. Historical Particularism: Characteristics can be shared by different societies.
  3. Diffussionism: Cultures imitate to obtain their elements.
  4. Functionalism: Necessary to mantain long fieldworks to study cultures properly.
  5. Freud: Influence of psicological traumas or sex events to develop adults minds in a society
  6. Neoevolutionism: Natural environment influences cultural factors.
  7. French Structuralism: Origin of differences and similarities among cultures.
2. Applications
  1. Education and Medicine: Beliefs colliding with what is taught at school. Also, diseases in culture
  2. Cultural Marketing: Lifestyle in urban places and bussines
  3. Equity, Equality and Inequality: Examines social and cultural dimension in development
3. Social Science: Branch concerned to humanity and its aspects
4. Subdisciplines
  1. Physical Anthropology: Material characteristic elements and fossils.
  2. Archaeology: Remains of past existing cultures
  3. Anthropology Linguistics: Diversity of languages in groups, in past and present.
  4. Cultural Anthropology: Analysis and description of cultures.
5. Stages
  1. Description of cultures and effects on their practices (16th Century)
  2. Search for scientific laws of evolution of societies and their institutions (19th Century)
  3. Search for laws of the functioning of societies (20th Century)
6. Ethnography research: Extensive study of daily life aspects in a culture
  1. Techniques
    1. Semi-structured Interview
    2. Participant Observation
    3. Testimony
    4. Life Stories
    5. Focus group
    6. Field Diary
    7. Documents
    8. Pictures and Videos
  2. Fieldwork: Direct observation to make a research about groups
  3. 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

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