1. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Question 1

Fieldwork?

Answer 1

Researcher lives and works among the people they wish to study.

Question 2

Ethnography?

Answer 2

The process of doing and analyzing fieldwork as well as the product, book, essay or film.

Question 3

Agency?

Answer 3

“People have power”

People make their own decisions and interact with social initiations in ways that can determine their own futures.

Question 4

Diaspora?

Answer 4

Spread across the world

Question 5

What are the subfields of anthropology?

Answer 5

Cultural
Biological
Linguistic
Archaeology

Applied anthropology

Question 6

Why is food important for cultural anthropology?

Answer 6

Takes up a big part of our life
Biological, we must eat.
Cultural, activities around food are part of complex systems of social, economic, political and religious and norms.

Food preferences are linked to identity.
Foodsystems are tied to environmental and regional sustainability.

Question 7

Framework?

Answer 7

A set of ideas of how the world works.

Individual body, biological level
Self, cultural level
Person, social level

Question 8

Biocultural?

Answer 8

Connections between culture and human biological needs and society.

Question 9

Typology?

Answer 9

The study of types or systematic classification, finding, counting and classifying facts.

Question 10

AAA Code of Ethics?

Answer 10

Anthropology used as a weapon in unethical.

Question 11

Red Power movement?

Answer 11

A social movement in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States in which Indigenous youth organized for political action