ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stone Age, Michael Pollan, Depth Perception

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Chivens

Document Summary

Acculturation/hybridization: ongoing exchange of cultural features that results when groups have continuous firsthand contact. Appropriation: the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group (and the new group changes it) Diffusion: borrowing between cultures either directly or through intermediaries (spreading of the same) Indirectly- when transferred a to c through group b. Domination: brutal form of invention, demanding change in culture (state vs. basseri wants to sedentize them) Efforts to sendentize by state and international organizations basseri fail because: Practices of the basseri are historically set, based strictly on movement. Independent invention: development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances. I. e. agriculture started independently in a bunch of different places. Sets up oppositions within nature (i. e: male vs. female) Naturalizes social world (gives you a sense of acceptable and the unacceptable) Low (barbaric, trashy) vs. high (erudite, classy) culture.