Anthro Flashcards
Use anthropology, psychology, and sociology to analyze the Gander event
Anthro: people from different backgrounds and different cultures living the same space
Psych: psychological need for connection and support during stressful times
Soc: the hospitality and compassion of the local community
Why do we need social sciences? What jobs use them?
Psychologist, lawyer, human Resources, police officer, etc
Ethnology
The comparative and analytical study of cultures. Includes descriptions of customs of individual peoples or cultures
Linguistic Anthropology
Study of language in culture and society
Archaeology
Study of human evolution of humans through material remains
Ethnocentrism
Tendency to believe that one’s ethnic or cultural group is the most important and that all other groups are measured in relation to one’s own
Cultural Anthropology
Study of customary patterns in human behaviour, thoughts and feelings
Cultural Relativism
An anthropologist cannot compare 2 cultured because each culture has its own internal rules that must be accepted
Functional Theory
Every belief, action, or relationship in a culture functions to meet the needs of individuals
Cultural Materialism
Materials or conditions within the environment (climate, food, supply, geography) influence how a culture develops
Feminist Anthropology
Looks at how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation are constructed in various societies, and the effects of those ideas on marginalized people
Postmodernism
It is impossible to have any true knowledge about the world. What we know about the world is our own construction created by society
What makes a human?
- Bipedalism
- Prolonged childhood
- Complex relationships
- Tool making
Who is Turkana Boy?
Almost complete fossilized skeleton of Homo Erectus
Why do we have a prolonged childhood?
It gives our brains time to grow and is able to fit in the birth canal
