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ANT2128 March 7th Review In this class we tried to focus on contemporary anthropology to get a taste of what anthropologists study and then across those, trying to get some sense of what defines contemporary anthropology and how that differs from past iterations of the field. Chapter 2, Human Rights: In general, as a broader scheme, we talked about the difference between universal concepts versus that idea of culturally specific. Chapter 3, Development: We went over the relationships and the pretty bad track record that development has in anthropology. We also went over the question of whether it could be redeemed through sort of a critical analysis talk about the three approaches; people who were studying development in hopes of improving it, people who are studying development as a discourse and seeing it only as a sort of negative process and then people who are actually anthropologists looking at the ethnographic field. Chapter 4, Religion: At the beginning of anthropology the focus was really on what was called primitive religion among small societies and they moved into this sort of world religious frame and then it came to a point where people were questioning whether that world religions concept really covers every each one and whether those things can be compared. Chapter 5, Gender and Sexuality: All these points are all connected to wider movements of understanding that the world is so much more divided up in a very historically and culturally contingent sort of phenomena of conceptions and understandings. These points are also very good reflections of that atomization that you see in the wider field and in the subfields. So all of this is sort of scalar, there's a sort of in between grounds on all of these conceptions and sort of novel

movements with non-binary identities and things like that have also sort of added new variables to this research. Chapter 6, Kinship: The creation of new connections that are still kinship but they challenge some of our traditional understandings of what that means and what some of these relationships are. It starts to bring into question what it means for something to be natural and sort of the way that we see and that we understand the idea of natural biological connections. People participating in these “untraditional kinships” are creating rules, standards, practices, social expectations, stigma and all these other sorts of cultural aspects around naturalizing those unnatural relationships. Finally in the Israeli case we see that these are not just at the family level but that politics and identity and social group and shame are all these other actors' beliefs and practices get pulled into these relationships. Chapter 7, Race: Race stopped being seen as a scientific category and started to be seen as a social category. It's something that people talk about. Scientifically now these sort of biological features are discussed as phenotypical clients and they're not attached to ethnic groups or languages or anything else that in the past they were connected to, because it's simply doesn't match up the way that people want to imagine it to match up. Aside from the biological aspects which are discussed in this sort of language of clients everything else that was once classified under race is now generally put into the term ethnicity which can also capture a number of other aspects because it's a very fluid and open category and so race now when it's disgusted only discussed as an understanding that people have about certain vague ideas of a group and how they then apply that to various people. Chapter 8, Ethnicity: That the sort of core of social identity is the idea of similarity and difference Us in them that is produced socially and that you don't always get to have a say in what ethnicity is going to be attached to you and that there are there are different aspects about the sort of formalized federal state version of national identity and group national identity.

Chapter 9, Economy: So the traditional is neoclassical economics and the contrast the more as anthropological perspective was the substantivist that was broken up into three sort of major patterns reciprocity exchange and redistribution. Chapter 10, Crime and Violence: Closest and how things that were happening on the global level the national level Municipal level were affecting things that were happening just on a street corner we talked a bit about Thick description the idea of not only detailing what's happening on the ground in ethnographic work but also making sure that you include the voices and understandings of the people that the research subject is on Chapter 11, Socialism and post socialism : We talked about how socialist governments took the power and it ended up sort of on the ground looking very different not only talking on the wider scale of like South American socialism versus European versus African but even Within Eastern Europe how every country had a slightly different approach and how context that we're already in the culture shaped how these new ideologies Chapter 13, Visual Anthropology: It really comes about in the 1980s and as we discussed there no longer is it a sort of just a basic here's a picture of the thing we're studying but now it's hot how did this picture come about who made it what was the reason what is trying to be conveyed through the image we talk a little bit about material culture and post human anthropology and the idea how a clock can be a window into or the clock the idea of clock can be a window into discussing something else about humans and and we'll various cultures and global and we talked about Colonial until Colonial contacts and the various sort of scientists scientific approaches to studying groups and to visual representations of groups Environmental anthropology talks about the importance of the idea of the anthropocene. When people live in toxic environments there's a number of social stigmas that arise out of it and then sort of the main takeaway was the Anthropologist role in this research and that's very much an

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