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Assignment:
1). What school of anthropology did the coalescing of these pursuits into "dark anthropology" eclipse?
- Marxism or material is approach in anthropology more broadly
- "culturalist" or symbolic and interpretive approaches
- social evolution
2). In what way does anthropocene compel Anthropologist not only to think about the present and the past of the human species, but the far distant future?
1. It entails inevitable anthropogenic changes that we could not have prevented
2. It refers to anthropogenic changes that only future Generations can do anything about
3. it involves process and materials- radioactively, Plastics, genetic modification- with very long or indeed permanent consequences
3). What is anthropological critique all of the term your shoulder " anthropocene"?
1. It glosses over the fact that some humans contribute more to environmental degradation than others.
2. It's too hard to spell
3. Its racist
4). Why does Carol Greenhouse called put it below anthropology both" old and new"?
Because the study of politics predates anthropology and was implicated in anthropology from its very founding, yet the politics of anthropology itself are highly sensitive to the ongoing developments on the global stage
Because political and apology has held on to some of its original ideas while also developing new ones
Because political anthropology attracts both established colors and fresh new faces
5). What was the conundrum faced by feminist anthropologists in the post-war period?
1. They felt compelled to advocate for the societies they study despite the patriarchal practices and sometimes characterized them
2. there was very little funding for research during this time period, so they have to pay their own research costs
3. Anthropologie was declining as a discipline at this time so they had to fight for its scarce resources
6). What is one of Keesing's concerns that symbolic anthropology's obsession with metaphor?
1. Symbolic anthropologists sometimes seemed in danger of reading unwarranted deep meaning into metaphors that don't really have any.
2. Only Western cultures use metaphor
3. metaphorical interpretation should be left to literary critics
7). What is a key concept of the underlying indigenous movement, at least according to Adam Kuper?
8). Why is a Ethnography sometimes called "fieldwork"
1. Because Anthropologist typically do it while living someplace far afield from where they actually live in work
2. because Anthropologist typically set up their tents in a field outside the village
3. because Anthropologist field a lot of questions from the natives and their work