Ch. 6: Ethnicity and Race
Anthropology 210 with Castor at Texas A&M University
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By: Nick Roller
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Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity
Created: 2012-03-28
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Ethnic group
a gathering whose members share certain beliefs,values, habits, customs, and norms because of their common background.
Ethnicity
dentification with, and feeling apart of, an ethnic groupand exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation.
Status
Any position that determines where someone fits in society
* Ascribed status
Social statuses based on little or no choice.
* Achieved status
Social statuses based on choices or accomplishments.
Race
An ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis
- NOT biological
Racism
discrimination against an ethnic group, assumedto have a biological basis
Situational Negotiation of Identity
Where one identity is used in certain settings, another in different ones.
Why hasn't humanity developed races, like canines have many different breeds?
Because human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into such discrete groups.
Racial Classification
Assigning organisms to categories based on common ancestry.
Phenotype
An organism's evident or manifest biological traits.
- physical characteristics
Skin color
Is a phenotypical trait that is most commonly used to categorize human races.
The San ("Bushmen")
Inhabitants of the Kalahari Desert, in southern Africa, who's skin color varies from brown to yellow. Making it difficult to impossible to classify them.
Intrinsic racism
The belief that a racial difference is a sufficient reason to value one person less than another.
Burakumin
A stigmatized group of at least 4 million outcasts that are physically and genetically indistinguishable from other Japanese.
Buraku
Where the burakumin are residentially segregated, where their name comes from.
Stratified
Class-structured, with differences in wealth, prestige and power.
Genotype
hereditary makeup
* Nation
Society sharing a language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship
State
Stratified society with formal, central government
* Nation-state
An autonomous political entity; a country.
Nationalities
Ethnic groups that have, once had, or want, their own country.
Colonialism
Long-term foreign domination of a territory and its people.
Assimilation
Absorption of minorities within a dominant culture.
- Minorities moving to foreign countries adopt the patterns and norms of the host culture
Plural society
Society with economically interdependent ethnic groups.
- Barth defines it as a society combining ethnic contrasts, ecological specializations and the economic interdependence of those groups.
Multiculturalism
View of cultural diversity as valuable and worth maintaining.
- This view encourages the practice of cultural-ethnic traditions
- Seeks ways for people to understand and interact that don't depend on sameness but rather on respect for differences
* Prejudice
Devaluing a group because of its assumed attributes
EX: Worldwide
Stereotypes
Fixed ideas about what members of a group are like
* Discrimination
Policies and practices that harm a group and its members
Discrimination De Jure
Legal policies and practices that harm ethnic groups
EX: South African apartheid, former segregation of southern U.S.
Discrimination De Facto
Non legally sanctioned, but practiced
EX: Worldwide
Genocide
Deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder
Rule of Descent
Assigns one's social identity on basis of ancestry
Ethnocide
Destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups
Refugees
People who flee a country to escape persecution or war.
*What is the Basque showing?
- Basques face the same pressures all minority languages do: knowledge of the national language (spanish or french) is essential.
Basque
- 1950's, disaffected Basque youths founded ETA ("Basque Country and Freedom") It's goal was to complete independence from Spain.
Basseria
The Basque family farm.
Cultural colonialism
Internal domination by one group and its culture or ideology over others.
About this deck
By: Nick Roller
Textbook: Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity
Created: 2012-03-28
Size: 39 flashcards
Views: 27
Textbook:
Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural DiversityCreated: 2012-03-28
Size: 39 flashcards
Views: 27
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