ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Hegemony, Emic And Etic, Culture Shock

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1220
• Professor: Ellen R.Judd

Document Summary

Etic: women in the society took care of the pigs, ever couple years there were too many pigs, and had to slaughter the pigs to maintain the ecological balance. Agency: the way in which an individual reacts to and acts upon his or her culture and society. Focus on the mode of production: social type that is defined by the way in which society is divided into classes based on ownership of the means of production . World systems theory: (wolf) stresses division of the world into core nations and those on the periphery and the expansion of international capitalism. Hegemony: dominance by one country or social group over others (meillassoux a neo-marxist) Go interact with the people you want to study, don"t rely on second have information. Ethnography involves collecting and analyzing information about culture. Fieldwork involves living and interacting with the people or group under study.