[ANTH V 1007x] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (25 pages long)

• School: Barnard College
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH V 1007x
• Professor: Severin Fowles

Document Summary

Anthropocentrism: way of thinking where humans are the focus. Eurocentrism: way of thinking drawn from traditional thought of western europe. Androcentrism: way of thinking where males are the focus and source of thought. Kinshipping: two separate entities (self/first and other/second) encounter each other and a third entity (ancestor) connects them in a relationship. Telescoping: sense that past and future appear to someone in a singular present moment. Example (a) : image of the nagasaki bomb, seeing the end of the world; and the image of. Example (b): article about monkeys and prosthetic arms that plug into the nervous system, ape symbolizes our origins, robot symbolizes future. Minerals -> plants -> animals -> humans -> angels and demons -> god. Moral problems with pride: not acknowledging rightful place when we try to ascend the chain. Associating primitivity as a fall from grace, descent from heavenly divine origin.