Bachelor of Social Science Anthropology Flashcards
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Which concept describes the way colonized peoples strategically combine elements of the colonizer's culture with their own to create new hybrid identities?
Answer: Hybridity
Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity describes the creative, ambivalent mixing of colonial and indigenous cultures that challenges pure or fixed identity categories.
In the anthropology of religion, what is 'animism'?
Answer: The belief that spirits or souls inhabit natural objects, animals, and phenomena
Animism, as described by E.B. Tylor, is the belief that spiritual beings or souls animate nature, considered by Tylor to be the earliest form of religion.
What is the 'mode of production' concept, as used by Marxist anthropologists like Eric Wolf?
Answer: The combination of technology, social relations, and resources through which a society produces its material needs
Mode of production refers to the way a society organizes the means and social relations of production, shaping its economic base and social superstructure.
Which term refers to the bodily practices and dispositions that people acquire through socialization, which Bourdieu called the embodied sense of one's place in the social world?
Answer: Habitus
Habitus is Bourdieu's term for the durable, transposable dispositions—ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that are internalized through social experience.
In forensic anthropology, what information can be reliably estimated from skeletal remains?
Answer: Biological sex, approximate age at death, stature, and population affinity
Forensic anthropologists analyze skeletal morphology to estimate the biological profile—sex, age, stature, and ancestry—which assists in identifying unknown individuals.
What does 'reciprocity' mean in economic anthropology, as distinguished by Marshall Sahlins?
Answer: The exchange of goods and services between parties based on social relationships rather than market price
Sahlins distinguished generalized, balanced, and negative reciprocity as different modes of exchange embedded in varying degrees of social closeness and obligation.
The 'culture and personality' school of American anthropology, associated with Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, argued primarily that:
Answer: Cultural conditioning shapes personality types, and no single personality pattern is universal
Mead and Benedict showed through cross-cultural research that personality, gender roles, and emotional expression vary dramatically with cultural upbringing rather than biology.