Anthropological Perspective Flashcards
a field of social sciences that focuses on the study of man.
Anthropology
Anthropology studies not just on one aspect of man, but the totality of what it means to be a blank
human
A study of artifacts in order to discover how people lived their lives
Archaeology
Archaeologists discovered humans adapted to changes in their environment in order for them to BLANK.
Survive
The most important aspect of human life
Survival
What is the dilemma that archeology continuously searches for answers?
Men are similar, but the manner they use to survive differs
Study on how the human body adapts to the different earth environments.
Biological Anthropology
They believe that homo sapiens did not become extinct because of their
ability to think, use tools, and learn from experience.
Explains how the biological characteristics of human beings affect how they lived their lives.
Biological Anthropology
While human beings vary in their blank and blank, there are a lot of similarities among them than their differences.
biological make up
behavior
Blank of human beings share may earn for them complete dominion over all earth creatures and at the same time be the cause of their extinction.
Biological characteristics
Human survival is primarily linked to their?
ability to communicate
an essential part of human communication
Language
Language identifies group of
people; words, sounds, symbols, writings, and signs that are used are reflection of a group’s climate
Linguistic anthropologists used language to?
discover a group’s manner of social interaction create and share meanings form ideas, concepts promote social change how language change over time
Language is reflective of the Blank and Blankof the people using it.
Time
Mode of thinking
group of people’s ways of life. Includes their behavior, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept through communication and imitation from generation to generation.
Culture
focus in knowing what makes one group’s manner of living particularly to that group and forms an essential part of the member’s personal and social identity.
Cultural Anthropologists
According to Theory of Cultural Determinism, it has a strong impact on how individual view himself.
Culture
Human nature is determined by the
ideas, meanings, beliefs, and values learned as member of a society.
Who or what a person is determined by
the kind of culture he was born and grew up with.
Cultural Anthropologists suggest that there is blank or right way of being human.
no Universal
The right ways are always based on
Culture
There is no limit placed on the human ability to be or to do whatever?
they set their minds and hearts into
People have no control over what they learn. They?
blindly accept the learning their culture expose them to.
are manifested in different ways and at different levels of depth.
Cultural diversities
the most superficial level of culture
Symbols
deepest level or the core of the culture
values
Manifestation of Culture that has words, gestures, symbols that have recognized meaning in a particular culture.
Symbols
Manifestation of Culture that includes persons from the past or present who have characteristics important in a culture. They may be real or fictitious and are models of behavior.
Heroes
Manifestation of Culture that includes activities, may be religious or social, participated by a group of people for the fulfillment of desired objectives and are considered to be socially essential.
Rituals
Manifestation of Culture that are unconscious, and can neither be discussed nor be directly observed but can only be inferred from the way people act and react to circumstances and situations
Values
Anthropology makes the person aware that what he is maybe determine by his blank, his blank, the way he blank, the blank that he uses, and the manner in which he blank.
past, and present condition biological characteristics communicates language chooses to live his life
