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[2]
General vocabulary and terminology
[1] Cultural Anthropology, publishes
ethnographic writing informed by a wide
array
of
theoretical
perspectives,
innovative in form and content, and
focused on both traditional and emerging
topics. It also welcomes essays concerned
with theoretical issues, with ethnographic
methods and research design in historical
perspective, and with ways cultural
analysis can address broader public audiences and interests.
As editors of Cultural Anthropology, Mike
and Kim Fortun will strive to maintain the
journal as a forum for innovative
anthropological writing that helps shape
new directions in the field. In their view,
Cultural
Anthropology
occupies
an
important niche in what can be thought of
as the ecology of anthropological publications, as a journal that actively promotes
new
approaches
–
encouraging
experimentation with new empirical foci
and modes of research practice, with
emergent theoretical and political currents, and with new forms of anthropological
writing. The journal will remain broad in topical scope, publishing articles that
make a number of crosscutting contributions.
Source: <http://www.aaanet.org/sca/ca/index.htm>
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[3] Tracking Properness: Repackaging Culture in a Remote Australian
Town
ABSTRACT Indigenous people around the world have used the contemporary convergence of
a global tourist market, increasingly available recording technologies, and ambivalent national
desires for reconciliation to repackage their traditional cultural knowledge. This article examines
the production and circulation of an internationally available compact disc containing
Warumungu women’s dreaming
songs. Tracking its production, circulation, and ongoing insertion into cultural negotiations, I
explore the contours of cultural change through simultaneously commercial and traditional
practices. In a nation that claims self-determination for its Aboriginal population, Australian
national sentiments and Aboriginal cultural mandates are not separate. Recent land rights
movements, political moves for cultural autonomy, and continuing political marginalization are
not just the backdrop for the compact disc’s production but part of the impetus for its existence.
As Warumungu women consciously repackaged their ancestral song tracks into the compact
disc’s tracks, they did so in ways that connect their abiding traditions and their uncertain future
through “proper” (jurrkkul) cultural actions. [indigeneity, Australia, Aboriginal, technology,
tourism]
s Look at the abstract of the article “Tracking Properness: Repackaging Culture in a
Remote Australian Town”. What is the article about?
t Explain the notion of “repackaging of culture”.
u Comment on the form “new empirical foci”.
v Supply the plural forms for the following nouns of Latin and Greek origin if
possible. Sometimes there are two plural forms. If you are not sure, check in the
dictionary. Make sure that you understand all the words.
Singular
stimulus
impetus
analysis
basis
medium
symposium
stratum
thesis
index
phenomenon
Plural
Singular
curriculum
syllabus
formula
hypothesis
memorandum
prognosis
emphasis
appendix
criterion
Plural
w Fill in the gaps in the following sentences using plural forms of the nouns from
exercise v.
VOCABULARY BOX
abiding traditions
address (audiences)
ambivalent
crosscutting
cultural mandates
Diaspora
dislocation
emerging topic, emergent
empirical focus
funeral
hostile
impetus
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ancestral
concerned with
consciously
indigenous people
land rights movement
modernity
occupy an important niche
ongoing
privatism
proper Î properness
repackageÎ repackaging
shape new directions
[1] There are no specific additional ........................ for assessing overseas
content
convergence
critique
strive to maintain
theoretical and political
currents
theoretical perspectives
track Î tracking
warrant(s)
wide array
candidates. [2] Author and subject ........................ are available on a library
database. [3] The normal maximum duration of programme is four years, though
students who intend to make a film or engage in other visual ........................work
during their fieldwork are generally granted an additional 6 months, as are those who
have to learn a difficult language. [4] History and Anthropology publishes articles
which develop these concerns, and is particularly interested in linking new
substantive ........................with critical perspectives on anthropological discourse. [5]
Reports, minutes and other papers, including ........................ from officials in African
You may find it useful to consult Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online
<http://dictionary.cambridge.org/> and/or Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary online
<http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/oald7/?cc=cz>
countries... [6] This page provides access to information about all University of
Buffalo Anthropology graduate student ........................ currently available in the
departmental library. [7] Sociologists generally identify different classes as social
EXERCISES
........................ in higher or lower order based on a class's measurable position on a
n Read about the journal Cultural Anthropology. What does this journal focus on?
o Who are the editors of the journal? What is their main aim?
p Explain the sentence “Cultural Anthropology occupies an important niche in what
can be thought of as the ecology of anthropological publications“ (shaded in the text).
dimensional scale.
OP: Look at the website of Cultural Anthropology http://www.anthrosource.net/loi/can.
Browse the current issues of the journal and notice the titles of the articles. What are the
articles about? Find out the most popular topic in last three years. Put down all
anthropological terms (and possibly other interesting words) you come across. Find the
meaning of these words. Choose the article with the most interesting title. Justify your choice.
q Look at the table of contents from a recent issue of Cultural Anthropology. Look up
new vocabulary.
r Find all words which form a part of anthropological terminology. Explain the terms
– what do they mean?
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