ANTH 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Red Power Movement, Franz Boas, American Anthropologist
22 Dec 2020
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Chapter 1: introduction to cultural anthropology (week 1) key terms. Agency: the capacity of people to think for themselves and control their life choices. Class consciousness: the awareness of one"s social rank within a system. Diasporic: spread to different parts of the world, especially used in reference to ethnic or cultural groups. Foodways: the methods, knowledge, and practices regarding food in a particular society. Franz boas: a pioneering american anthropologist, called the father of american anthropology ; a proponent of cultural relativism and doing fieldwork. Others: a view of a person or category of people as different from, and therefore less than, one"s self; also used as a verb, to other a group of people . Red power movement: a social movement in the 1960s and 1970s in the united states in which. Social capital: resources that have value within a particular social group in which exchanges are bound by reciprocity and trust.
