ANTHRCUL 101 1st Edition Exam # 3 Study Guide Lectures: 22 - 34 EXAM DATE: MONDAY, APRIL 20[NOTE: Subject to minor changes, which would be widely publicized!]3/20: Identity, Belonging, and Architecture General questions to think about: How are concepts of public and private connected to social control and identity (see lecture/ slides in particular)?o Different for everybody depending on who you are, where you liveo These different meanings help create our identityo Public space is regulated – you have to belong in order to be able to use the public spaceo In Getting Ghost Public and private space blurred by the drug trade Homes versus spotsHow does surveillance usually work, according to lecture?o Surveillance gives ability of you to watch yourself, doesn’t necessarily mean you are always being watched Don’t need a police officer present – just an empty police car causes changes in behaviorRelevant Reading: Getting Ghost chapters 5-6, overall reading comprehension—will not ask you to recall detailed specifics, but will expect that you have read. One super specific thing: What, according to Bergmann, is the difference between a “spot” and a “home”? (see lecture slides under Culture and Time for additional assistance here).Relevant Video: Grown in Detroit, Basic viewing comprehension should suffice here. Revisit corresponding lecture slides on CTools to jog your memory. o The making of individual identity What does it take to gain a better understanding of identity?- Attention to very particular circumstances and histories, not simply abstract notions like “the State” Why does architecture matter?3/23: Culture and Time What power do states have that helps create the idea of the State in our everyday lives, according to lecture (see slides)?o The state as an idea versus the state as an administrative system The power to withhold information contributes to the idea of the state as a singular entity- State can keep information from the general public, decide what people can and can’t do, makes us want to do it How is time constructed differently from different standpoints (see Lofgren and lecture slides) Homogenous time: mechanical, measured construction of time of industrial production- Idea that time can be wasted, used badly Rhythmic cyclical construction of non-industrial peasant view of time What features of time are most associated with industrial production? (Homogenous)Relevant Reading: Lofgren (basic reading comprehension)3/25: Architectures of Time and Identity How is time connected to morality? (see Lofgren, lecture) What connections can you make between surveillance and social constructions of time? Revisit what forms of time Bergmann writes about (adult time vs. juvenile time)Relevant VideoSurveillance Camera Players (short YouTube video clip). In what way is this clip a commentary on the notion of “public space”?- Public space: space nobody really owns, everybody can use – but have certain rules- How is public space marked by understandings of time? - How are you “allowed” to use your time in certain places?3/27 & 3/30: Kinship and Identity In what way does kinship “organize personhood”? (see slides for this)o Defines Obligationso Sense of Belongingo Structures relationships (with siblings, extended family members, etc.)o Defines who you can and cannot marry What are some of the main points of marriage (see slides for this)?o Kinship is an exchange systemo Dramatic variation in marriage cross-culturallyo Regulates social links between sexuality/procreationo Serves to socially legitimate children in the social worldo Builds alliances, establishes connections (often economic) among affineso Plays an important role in regulating descent the transmission of inheritance Key terms to know: Bridewealth/ Progeny Price: Customary gift from husband and his kin to the wife and her kin  Dowry: Marital exchange in which bride’s family or kin provides gifts when their daughter marries Parallel Cousins: children of parents’ siblings of (that sibling’s) same gender Cross Cousins: children of parent’s siblings of opposite gender  Descent Groups: o Matrilineal: Lifetime membership in mother’s group. Children of the group’s men are excluded (ex: Trobrianders of Kula fame)o Patrilineal: Lifetime membership in father’s group. Children of the group’s women are excluded Exogamy: Rule or custom of seeking a mate outside of one’s group, reinforced through incest taboos. Endogamy: Rule or custom of marrying within a group to which one belongs. Caste System as example. Family of Orientation: Family in which one is born and grows up Family of Procreation: Family formed when one marries and has children Residence patterns:o Neolocality: live with nuclear familieso Matrilocality: live with mother/wife’s familyo Patrilocality: live with husband/father’s familyo Extended family households: Three or more generations  Nuclear Family: parents and their children Plural Marriages: o Polygyny: Men having more than one wife o Polyandry: Women having more than one husbando Serial Monogamy: Multiple spouses is accepted, but not more than one at the same time. (divorce, widows) Lineal Kinship: Mother/father’s sisters – aunts; Mother/father’s brothers - uncles Bifurcate Merging: on mothers’ side – all women mothers, all men uncles; on father’s side – all men fathers, all women aunts  Generational Kinship: all women in a generation above ego are called mothers, all men called fathersKinship terminology only from lecture slides (also see reference guide on Ctools): Be able to read a basic kinship chart!Radiolab episodes: Make sure you have listened to one of the three episodes linked to from CTools (Ally’s Choice, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, or the episode on Fatherhood). Basic listening comprehension is enough.Additional Reading: What is the Stebbins story of the neglectful mother about?4/1-4/3: Sex, Gender, Culture, Meaning What are the three basic ways of approaching gender?1. Defined by social roles (based on biological binaries – men/women)a. Women should be able to vote, etc.2. Focus on cultural construction – how meaning is applied to sexual difference3. Gender as the “performance” of sexual difference What, according to some biologists, is wrong with the idea that there are two sexes?o There are