ANTH 3690- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 3690
• Professor: Marta Rohatynskyj

Document Summary

Its not that much in use in and of itself, but many incorporate it or some have functionalist views when writing. It is a way to survive in your environment, so it is the only solution to survive in this place: emic perspective. If the practice seems to be irrational, look at the base of it. What is its function: to make sense of things/predicaments that you don"t have an explanation too, the granaries: structures people work under, lots of termites so they eventually fall and people get hurt. To explain why this happens while certain people are under it, they say it is witch craft. People started to ask question about the way they are dealing with the discipline. Intersection of race, class, and gender: concubinage, threated by challenges to european superiority, colonial leaders moved to increase the separation between rulers and subjects. In the non-european and non-american spheres, ortner"s position was strongly criticized.