Anth week 4 lec 2 Midterm info: Don't be stingy, be expansive Page and a half Tell him everything you know Don't need to exactly cite but refer to examples from readings if possible If he has emphasized the name, it is fair game to be tested on Test in person and on paper at 3pm Leonard s Klink building room 201 Test will be in LSK 201 on Wednesday, Feb. 9th at 3:00 p.m. Important names: vaber, smith, nash, barth How do we know a group is ethnic? - Is London stock brokers an ethnic group? - Are star trek fans an ethnic group? Manning Nash: anthropologist who suggested a way to tell this - He suggests: Bed, blood, and cult o He means the group must be self-reproducing and self-perpetuations, endogamous o Bed: London stockbrokers do not only marry and reproduce with other London stockbrokers, therefore are not an ethnic group o Blood: shared ancestry based on some visible or behavioural marker (look alike, share cultural features or customs) o Cult: shared moral outlook or understanding of the world. This could mean the religion, which is associated with the ethnic group, the religious institution itself is not the ethnic group, but the group will share a religious understanding likely Objective vs subjective: Confuse the cultural with the political Is ethnicity only a matter of perception? Is it all a matter of choices? Habitus: as explained by Erikson; beliefs and dispositions acquired as part of a culture or part of a social structure, none of us choose our habitus. - We are born into a community with set beliefs and traditions - As we get older, we may reject or embrace these things - Must also recognize that not everybody starts in the same place; measured in: o Annual incomes o Spending o House o These are objective ways to see that people start in different places
- Thus, to some extent there are primordial aspects to ethnicity - A white man cannot claim to be Chinese - Some characteristics are more readily available to be noticed than others General conclusions to part one: - Erikson says there is a variable and complex relationship between ethnicity and culture; and there is no one-to-one relationship between cultural differences and ethnic ones; - Not a one-to-one relationship between cultural and ethnicity - Politics are a player in this - Ethnicity exists between and not within groups - Ethnicity, according to Erikson, is the enduring communication of cultural differences between groups ... it appears wherever cultural differences are made relevant in social interaction - Ethnicity is thus relational and also situational ... it is not absolute