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1 HSC Midterm Review Lists Think about four steps to explaining these, along the lines of context (where

it comes from), content (what it refers to), concept (what it explains; why it's important to the author), connection (why we care about it; what it represents in terms of the development of the discipline of anthropology). Boas phenomenology, cosmography ambitious descriptivism significance of potlatch naming, status, and selfhood/personhood property destruction cultural relativism potlatch Bourdieu doxa orthodoxy misrecognition practical analysis vs objectivist and subjectivist established order Derrida aporia of the gift status and gift giving misrecognition Durkheim social fact Kuper the primitive construct/primitivism/the ideology of referring to the primitive Malinowski imponderabilia fieldwork as scientific method significance of kula ring exchange functionalism prestations Mauss reciprocity system of total services obligation gift giving

2 exchange and social relations hau potlatch fetish agonistic act Adam Smith problem Mead culture and personality ethnographic present culture gardens cultural relativism Myerhoff bricolage examples of social drama ... Ongkas Big Moka social relations and exchange investment and returns circulation of goods gift giving and status giving as performance examples of misrecognition in gift-giving Turner rite of passage social drama social anti-structure processual view of social relations liminality (dynamics of) metaphor communitas multivocality polysemy Tylor ethnology survivals evolutionism noble savage psychic unity of mankind primitive ancestor monogenism vs polygenism culture vs cultures

Williams culture concept

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