Infected kin

Question

(8) Choose four of the following concepts, and apply them to what we have read so far in Infected Kin. For each concept you choose, please underline or bold the term (so we can clearly identify which concepts you chose). Be sure to define each concept, and then explain how it applies to Infected Kin. The best answers will underscore the significance of the term for Block and McGrath’s book. (400 words)

Options: (choose any 4):

“Denaturalizing” a cultural practice
Ethnographer as a positioned subject
Cultural “logic” or rationale of a practice
Ethnocentrism
Code-switching
Ethnographic dazzle
Cultural relativism
Cultural “reflexes”
Emic and/or etic (you can use either or both terms but it only counts as one of your four)
Emotional economy
Kinship as an idiom
Thick description
Cultural “reflexes”
“Grammar” of a culture
The invention of “orphans” in Botswana.

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