Political map of the world

Cultural groups

• This European problem that Wagner discusses• Imagining others as living in groups analogous

to our political system of states or pseudo states.

• Groups have names• Inventory of the empire - polity of diverse

peoples and cultures• Anthropology grew out of the need (and simple

curiosity) to manage these peoples effectively• Ethnic groups are self-identified

Map of native languages of North Asia

N A Languages

California

Ethnonyms

• Name learned from Neighbors• Eskimo, Koryak, Chukchi

• Name translates as “person” or “real person”

• Luoravetlan(lorawelat), Nymylan (nymnym)• Inuit (Canada),

Inupiat (Western Alaska, use “Eskimo” in English), Yupik (Bering St., Siberia - “Eskimos”)

Groups - ways of classification

•Physical type (races)•Xanthochroic - light complexion•Melanochroic - dark complexion

•Language

•Culture (habits, religion, traditions)

Magyars (Hungarians)

•European physical type

•Finno-Ugric Language

•Eastern European culture

European langs

Ugric langs

New Guinea

• 800-1000 different language, in many different language families

• Some peoples New Guineau Highlands practice what amounts to linguistic exogamy

• Major differences in cultural patterns associated with geography - highland interior vs. lowland coasts

Unconscious Patterning of Language

•Secondary rationalizations more data, not answers

•Culture in general can be seen as more or less conscious (self-aware)

Identities

Not necessarily essential or permanent (Wagner’s house people and people of the base

Locke, Rousseau, others - identity is a primary attribute(This stone is this stone and never that one)

Personal identities used as basic for symbols of groups

Koryak ideas of person

• Persons include humans, animals, mountains, rocks, spirits, parts of rivers

• No mind-body dualism • Human soul has several components

• Breath (wuyevi)• Soul (uyichit)• Shade (wuyelwuyel)

• A human being you meet is a complex entity of recurrent and unique features

Koryak collective identities

Greatly influenced by Russian ideas of groups

Conscious delineation of ethnic groups, subgroups

Unconscious patterning (other means of discussing sociality) provides a more complex picture of residence, cooperation, kinship and friendship

Pathfinder assignment

Need to start by thinking like an imperial administrator

Don’t end up thinking that way

Koryak, Koriak, Korjak, Korak

Koriakskii, Korjakskij

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Pintupi Kwakwaka'wakwEuropeSaami OceaniaBasque MaoriRoma ArandaTraveller Gypsies Sepik

Arapesh Tonga Trobrianders

Important Links

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/lib262/e-resources/subjects?3