Anthropology Flashcards

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What are the types of anthropology?

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  • cultural: studies human interaction + culture
  • physical: studies artefacts
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What do physical anthropologists do?

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  • study human evolution
  • look at fossils as proof of physical and envrionmental development
  • study how mankind originated and spread across the world
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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
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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
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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
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