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Anthropology Flashcards

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Cultural anthropologists and ethnologists most often use what method of gathering data?

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Interviews and participant observation

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What best illustrates a material cultural trait?

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A television set

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What is the best description of culture?

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The system of ideas, values, behaviours and attitudes of a society

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____________ would be more likely to study governmental structures

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Cultural Anthropologists

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Functional theory is…

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The idea that all social institutions are designed and modified to serve the needs to the majority of the population

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An ethnography is…

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A study and description of a cultural group

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Cultural Evolutionism is…

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Criticized for being racist and ethnocentric

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What evidence suggested that “Lucy” was about three feet tall?

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The length of her leg bone

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Homonization is a term which refers to

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The making of human beings

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Glaciation encouraged homonization by

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Reducing the sizes of tropical forest forcing pre-humans onto the savannahs

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Anthropologists must view their subject culture as the participants see it and recognize and avoid their own biases. This is called

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Reflexivity

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Anthropologists would generally concern themselves with

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Humans as a species and human cultures

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Linguistic Anthropologists do not

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Study the shape of the human jaw in order to understand human evolution

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Ethnicity is

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Your understanding of who you are based on your ancestry

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“Upright man”

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Homo erectus

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99% of their DNA is identical to humans

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Chimpanzees

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Marriage where a woman takes more than one husband

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Polyandry

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Discovered that chimps have many characteristics that were previously thought to be unique to humans

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Goodall

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Early human that likely used small tools and built shelters

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Homo habilis

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His discovery of a hominid skull in Africa showed that people did not originate in Asia

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Dart

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The system that identifies to whom a person is related, who they must show respect to, and who must show respect to them

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Kinship

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The family to which apes and humans belong

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Primates

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The most complete skeleton ever found of Australopithecus Afarensis

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Lucy

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Used techniques of participant observation to gain acceptance into Mountain Gorilla groups

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Fossey

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Were the first primates to evolve away from the common ancestor

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Orangutans

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Marriage where a man takes more than one wife

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Polygyny

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Studied fossilized “tools” in the Olduvai Gorge in Kenya

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Leakeys

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A behaviour or expectation of all (or almost all) people in a culture

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Cultural Universal

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A group of people who practice agriculture without irrigation and often move on after the soil becomes less productive

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Horticultural Society

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No culture is superior to another; all cultures have internal rules and logical within their environment, historical, social, and cultural contexts

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Cultural Relativism

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Anthropology can help us to understand how gendered groups are oppressed, and anthropologists should help activists create change in their own societies

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Feminist Anthropology

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Anthropologists must consider the impact of their own interactions in their research. It is impossible to be objective, so research in one’s own culture is just as valid as research in a different culture

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Postmodernism

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Each element in a culture functions to serve the people in it. The anthropologists’ goal is to discover the practical function of a cultural trait

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Functional Theory

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Anthropologists try to understand how ideas form in a society by looking at the specific environmental resources available

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Cultural Materialism

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