Anthropology Flashcards
1
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What are the types of anthropology?
A
- cultural: studies human interaction + culture
- physical: studies artefacts
2
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What do physical anthropologists do?
A
- study human evolution
- look at fossils as proof of physical and envrionmental development
- study how mankind originated and spread across the world
3
Q
What did C. Darwin contribute?
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- was a physical anthropologist
- interested in the study of human evolution
- natural selection
- survival of the fittest
4
Q
What is social Darwinism?
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- those who deserve to survive, will
- goes back to the idea of meritocracy
- lots of oppression and victim blaming
5
Q
Who was M. Mead?
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- mentored under Franz Boas
- a cultural anthropologist
- established anthropology as a scientific discipline
- believed that if you wanted to study a culture you must fully immerse/assimilate into that culture
- bc of that she was accused of cultural appropriation
- thought that girls and boys will act according to how their culture expects them to
