Week 3: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Outline for Chapter 16:

Anthropology and the Future  (452-485)

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Professor John Wolford
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Email: wolfordj@msx.umsl.edu


 
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The important questions Haviland cites for you to consider while reading this chapter:
 

What can anthropologists tell us of the future?

What are some present-day trends in cultural evolution?

What problems will have to be solved if humanity is to have a future?
 

Notes for William A. Haviland, 

Cultural Anthropology, 10th edition: 

Chapter 16:  Anthropology and the Future  (452-485)

 
page 6 anthropology the study of humankind, in all times and places


 

The Cultural Future of Humanity (454-474)
 
 

Global Culture (455-457)
 

The Rise of the Multinational Corporations (457-463)
 
ORIGINAL STUDY:  (on pp. 446-462)
STANDARDIZING THE BODY: THE QUESTION OF CHOICE
LEARN THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY

UNDERSTAND WHY THIS STUDY IS PLACED UNDER THIS SECTION

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Global Culture: A Good Idea or Not? (464)
 

Ethnic Resurgence (465)
 

Cultural Pluralism (466-470)
page 466 cultural pluralism social and political interaction of people with different ways of living and thinking within the same society
 
Guatemalan Cultural Pluralism (466-470)
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ANTHROPOLOGY APPLIED:  (on p. 472)
ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN
LEARN THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY

UNDERSTAND WHY THIS STUDY IS PLACED UNDER THIS SECTION

 

Ethnocentrism (470-471)
 

Global Apartheid (471-474)
page 471 apartheid South African term meaning, apart-ness, keeping subordinate societies separate from dominant ones

Problems of "Structural Violence" (474-483)
 
page 474 structural violence  violence that situations, institutions, and social, political, and economic structures exert
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World Hunger (475-477)
 

Pollution (477-479)
   

Population Control (480-482)
 
page 481 replacement reproduction  when birthrates and death rates are in equilibrium; people produce only enough offspring to replace themselves when they die
 

The Culture of Discontent (483)
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