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What is anthropology?

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The study of humankind in all times and places

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What is holistic perspective?

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A fundamental principle of anthropology, that all parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand the interconnections and interdependence

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Define Ethnocentrism

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the belief that the ways of one’s culture are the only proper onesw

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If you are culture-bound you tend to…

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…look at teh world and reality based on the assumptions and values of one’s own culutre.

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Co-sleeping with infants reduces the risk of______

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SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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Applied Anthropology is the use of_____

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anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client.

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medical anthropology combines______

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theoretical and applied approaches from cultural and biological anthropology with the study of human health and disease

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Define Physical Anthropology

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the systematic study of humans as biological organisms (aka biological anthro)

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What is Molecular Biology

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a branch of biological anthropology that uses biochemical techniques to test hypotheses about human evolution, adaptation, and variation

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Paleoanthropology is the study of…

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…predecessors of the present human species; the study of human evolution

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biocultural implies a focus on…

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…the interaction of biology and culture

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primatology is the study of…

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…living and fossil primates

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Anthropologist Margaret Locke studied…

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…the differences between Japanese and North American acceptance of the biological state of brain death and how it affects the practices of organ transplantation

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Jane Goodall studied the behavior of…

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…chimpanzees

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What is the difference between physiological and developmental adaptations?

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Developmental adaptation is responsible for variations of human features over a long period of time, whereas physiological adaptations are changes that occur iin the short-term in response to a particular environmental stimulus

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The applied sub-field of physical anthropology called forensic anthropology specializes in…

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…the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes

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Among the best-known forensic anthropologists, he is also considered a pioneer of the industry

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Clyde C Snow

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Define Cultural Anthropology

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the study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought , and feelings. It focuses on humans as culture-producing adn culture-reproducing creatures (aka social of sociocultural anthro)

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what is culture?

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A society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, used to make sense of experience adn generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior

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What is ethnography?

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ethnography is a detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork

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fieldwork is…

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…the term anthropologists use for on-location research

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participant observation refers to….

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the technique of learning a people’s culture through participation, observation, interviews and discussion of an extended period of time

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What is ethnology?

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Comparative analysis of different cultures utilizing ethnographic accounts

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Linguistic Anthropology is the study of…

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…human languages

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This linguistic anthropologist worked to preserve indigenous languages in Bolivia

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Gregory Anderson

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What is discourse?

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discourse is an extended communication on a particular subject

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Archaeology is the study of…

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…human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data

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Bioarchaeology is…

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…the study of human remains, emphasizing the preservation of cultural and social processes in the brain

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Cultural Resource Management refers to…

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…A branch of archaeology tied to government policies for the protection of cultural resources. Involves surveying land, and excavating historical remains threatened by development

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Empirical evidence is based on…

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…observations rather than intuition or faith

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hypothesis

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a tentative exlanation of the relationships between certain phenomena

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When state legislation sponsors archaeological work it is referred to as

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contract archaeology

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33
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Franz Boaz did his first ethnolographic research among the

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Inuit (Eskimos)

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Pioneering founder of North American Anthropology. She did her fieldwork among the Zuni Indians of Arizona. Founded the women’s anthro society

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Matilde Coxe Stevenson

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A theory is

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an explanation of natural phenomena supported by reliable body of data

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A _____ is an assertion of opinion or belief that is handed down by an authority as true and indespensible

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doctrine

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she worked with Zulu healers in Africa to help slow the spread of HIV/AIDS

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Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala

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What is informed consent?

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a formal recorded agreement to participate in research; federally mandated for all research conducted in the US and Europe

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Worldwide interconnectedness is referred to as…

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…Globalization

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40
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This Israeli filmmaker sold his own kidney through a broker

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Nick Rosen

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enculturation is the process by which

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a society’s culture is passed on from one generation to the nextand individuals become members of their society

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An organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, language, adn culture, and who act together for collective survival and well-being

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society

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the term gender refers to

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the cultural elaborations and meanings assigned to the biological differentiation between the sexes

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a group with a distinctive set of ideas, values, and traits within a larger society is called a…

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…subculture

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ethnic groups are

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people who collectively and publicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on cultural features such as language and customs

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46
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gathered information about Apache housing needs

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George S. Esber

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What is a Pluralistic Society?

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a society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state, yet maintain their cultural distinctions

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a symbol is…

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a sign, sound, emblem, or other thing that is arbitrarily linked to something else

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In 1955, he studied the Kapauku Papuans of New Guinea (pig breeding a sign of power)

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Leopold Pospisil

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The Social Structure is…

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…the social organization, the pattern of social arrangements of individuals within a society

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Infrastructure refers to…

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…the economic base. the mode of subsistence

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The Superstructure is…

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…Worldview: the perception of self, society, and the world around us

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He outlined three fundamental levels of needs that had to be resolved by all culutres.

  1. food and procreation
  2. law and education
  3. religion and art
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Branislaw Manislowski

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A complex of ideas and activities that enable people to survive and thrive in their environment

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cultural adaptation

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Cultural Relativism is the idea that…

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…one must suspend judgement of other peoples practices in order to understand them in cultural terms

56
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What is urgent or Salvage anthropology?

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ethnographic research that documents endangered cultures

57
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She was one of the first Anthropologists to study acculuration

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Margaret Mead in 1932 (Omaha Indians of Nebraska)

58
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She focused on racial segregation in the 1930’s

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Hortense Powdermaker

59
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His goal was to study the comparative impact of industrialization and urbanization among different populations

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Julian Steward (1956-57)

60
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Advocacy anthro is research that is ________ -based

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community

61
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globalscape refers to

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a worldwide interconnected landscape

62
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diaspora literally means _______

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“scattering”

63
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multi-sited ethnography refers to

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the documentation of of cultures embedded in the larger structuresof a globalizing world

64
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There are more than ______ languages spoken in the world

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six thousand

65
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Napoleon Chagnon studied the _____ in South America’s rainforest

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Yanomami

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a Key Consultant is a…

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…member of the society being studied who provides information that helps researchers understand the menain gof what they observe. (aka informants)

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An eliciting device is an..

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…object or activity used to draw out individuals and encourage them to recall and share info

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Canadian Anthropologist that studied Alaska’s natural gas pipeline

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Hugh Brody

69
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Device to store geographically referenced spatial information

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Geographic information systems (GIS)

70
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They highlighted the importance of cameras in the ethnographic tool kit

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Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson

71
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Lived among the Amazonian Indians of Brazil (Canela Tribe)

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William Crocker

72
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This anthropologist was caught in political tensions in the Bolivian Highlands

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June Nash

73
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This anthropologist was known for his challenges in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Northwestern Pakistan

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Lincoln Keiser

74
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The practice of critical self-examination is called

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reflexivity

75
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She studied the importance of the Trobriand Women of Papua New Guinea

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Annette B Weiner

76
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Explain HRAF

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(Human Relations Area Files) a vast collection of cross-indexed ethnographic and archaeological data cataloged by cultural characteristics and geographical data. Facilitates comparative research

77
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Examined HRAF in her study for “Female Power and Male Dominance

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Peggy Reeves Sandy

78
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What is the idealist perspective?

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A theoretical approach stressing the primacy of superstructure

79
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What is the materialist Perspective?

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A theoretical approach stressing the primacy of infrastructure

80
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What is Neo-evolutionism?

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measures the growing capacity for energy capture per capita

81
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scientia potentia est means

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“knowledge is power”

82
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What is the central maxim of anthropologists

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Anthropological researchers must do everything in their power to ensure that their research does not harm the safety, dignity, or privacy of the people with whom they work

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Anthropomorpha means…

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…“human shaped”

84
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Means active during dayight

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Homo sapiens or Homo diurnus

85
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Homo Troglodytes are…

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…“cave dwellers”

86
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This primatologist wrote “The World of Livings Things” in 1941

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Kinji Imanishi

87
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Among bonobos _________is primarily a female activity

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hunting

88
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Hominoids are…

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…the broad shouldered tailless group of primates that includes all livings and extinct apes and humans

89
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This genus includes several species of early bipeds from Africa. Living about 1.1 and 4.4 mya. Diect ancestor to humans

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Australopithecus

90
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The species Homo appeared about _____ mya

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2.5

91
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what is evolutionary medicine

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a branch of medical anthropology that uses evolutionary human principles to contribute to human health

92
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The Lower Paleoithic is considered the first part of the Stone Age and took place 250,000 - 2.6 mya. The period is marked by…

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…the Oldwan tool tradition and the appearance of stone flakes and choppers

93
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_______ was the first species in the genus Homo with the demonstrated use of tools.

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Homo Habilis

94
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appeared about 2mya ago. Literally means “upright man”

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Homo erectus

95
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The Pleistocene or “Ice Age” occured…

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2m - 10,000ya

96
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earth is approx. ____ billion years old

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4.6

97
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Home erectus learned to use fire ____ mya

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one mya

98
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A distinct group within the genus Homo inhabiting Europe and Southwest Asia 30,000 - 125,000 years ago

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Neandertal

99
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When specimens are given separate species names it signifies that they…

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…form part of a reproductively isolated group

100
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Marked by being lighter and smaller than those of earlier traditions. What was the tool tradition founded by the Neandertals

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Mousterian Tool Tradition

101
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What is last part of the Old Stone Age called. characterized by long slim blades and an explosion of creative symbolic forms

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Upper Paleolithic

102
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Atlatl is an…

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instrument used by the Aztecs with a hook on the end to throw a spear.

103
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What is the multi-regional hypothesis

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belief that modern humans originated through simultaneous local transition from erectus to sapien, throughout the inhabited world

104
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The African-origins hypothesis is…

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…belief that all modern people are derived from a single population of sapiens who migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago

105
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Define race

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In biology a subgroup within species. Not actually applicable to humans because there are no subspecies of modern Homo sapiens

106
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A system of communication using sounds or gestures put together in a menaingful way according to a set of rules

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language

107
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What is a signal

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an instinctive sound or gesture that has a natural or self-evident meaning

108
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The goal of Project Chantek was to…

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investigate the mind of an orangutan through a developmental study of his cognitive and linguistic skills

109
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The modern scientific study of all aspects of language

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linguistics

110
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Defined as the systematic identification and descriptiuon of the distinctive sounds in a language

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phonetics

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Phonology is the…

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…study of language sounds

112
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Phonemes are

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the smallest unit of sound that make a difference in meaning in language. such as the difference between “bit” and “pit”

113
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The study of patterns or word formations in language

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morphology

114
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morphemes are…

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…the smallest unit of sound that carry meaning in language. Such as c. o. w. and the s. to indicate plural

115
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Syntax is..

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…the pattern or rules by which words are arranged into phrases or sentences

116
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______ is the entire formal structure of language

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Grammar

117
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A ______ is a group of languages that descended from a single ancestral language includes 11 subgroups (Germanic, Romance)

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Language Famiily

118
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the separation of of daughter languages from a unified language

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Linguistic Divergence

119
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Analyzes core vocabularies to identify approx. time that language branched off from a common ancestor

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Glottochronology

120
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What is linguistic nationalism

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the attempt by ethnic minorities to proclaim independence by purging their language of foreign terms

121
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What is sociolinguistics

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The study of the relationship between language and society. Examining how social categories influence styles of speech

122
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He developed the Accelerated Second Language Acquisition (ASLA) to preserve the indigenous language of the Arapaho Indians

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S. Neyooxet Greymorning

123
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Dialects are…

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…varying forms of a language that reflect particular region, or social classes but are similar enough to be mutually intelligible

124
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Linguistic Determinism is the idea that…

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…language to some extent shapes the way in which we view and think about the world around us

125
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Changing from one of speech to the next as the situation demands

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Code Switching

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Ethnolinguistics is the study of…

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…the relationship between language and culture and how they mutuall influence adn inform each other

127
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Facial expressions and body postures and motions that convey intended adn subconscious messages

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gestures

128
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Kinesics is a system of…

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…notating and analyzing gestures that convey messages

129
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The cross-cultural study of people’s perception and use of space

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Proxemics

130
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In 1959, he wrote the “Silent Language,” now recongnized as teh founding document of for the field of intercultural communication

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Edward Hall

131
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What is para-language

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Voice effects that accompany language and convey meaning. such as giggling, groaning, or sighing

132
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in this type of language, pitch of the spoken word is the essential part of its meaning

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Tonal Language

133
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displacement refers to…

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…things and events removed from time and place

134
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Egyptian writing system

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hieroglyphics

135
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an arrangement of wedge-shaped imprints developed primarily in Mesopotamia

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Cuneiform

136
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Most alphabets today evolved from…

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…The Phoenician Alphabet

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