ANTH 160 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Patrilineality, Endogamy, Edward Burnett Tylor
30 Oct 2014
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Relativistic fallacy: the idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about another"s culture beliefs of behaviors because it may make sense within their cultural lens. 16: kwakwaka"wakw use food metaphors to understand life, gluttony related to savegry, cock fights. 17. religious faith vs. science: science is based on disproving while religion is based on confirmation. Key metaphors, analogy: mental shortcuts - color our world view, money metaphors, war and competition. 24: when reality shows belief is wrong, people still attempt to explain these inconsistencies or contradictions. Selective perception: the tendency of people to see and recognize only those things that are consistent with their beliefs or what they expect to see. Suppressing evidence: not allow or believing evidence that conflicts with a previously held belief. Revitalization movements & crisis: ghost dance, when a belief is threatened, shakers. Interpretive drift: the changing of one"s beliefs when they become involved in a particular activity.
