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Anthropology Flashcards

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Anthropology

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Study of people and cultures

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Social exchange theory

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The idea that we give to get, with as little cost to us as possible
Ex. Bringing food/gift to a party, working to get a paycheque

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Primary research

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Research done by yourself

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Secondary research

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Research done by others on the topic you are researching that you utilize

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Research question

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Overall concept or focus of the study

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Hypothesis

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Educate guess to answer the research question

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Blind study

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A study where at least two groups are participating and one group receives different treatment (drugs, behaviour, etc). The group who does not receive the treatment dont know.

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Placebo

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When a person believes they are receiving treatment (pill) but it is nothing of value (sugar pill)

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Double blind study

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Neither the participants or the supplier of the treatment know who is receiving the actual treatment.

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Participants

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People taking part in the experiment

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Ethnography

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Recording and analysis of culture, society. A scientific description of customs of individuals and cultures.

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Hunting-Gathering

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Men and older male children would leave camp/home to hunt and kills animals for meat. Women, children and elders pick plant-based food from nearby the camp/home.

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Participant observation

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The researcher partakes in the activity being observed. They listen, participate and record things.

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Archaeology anthropology

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Artifact retrieval from the past and places them in context to understand history and their relevance today

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Forensic anthropology

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Identifying skeletal or human remains

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Visual anthropology

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Documents everyday life through filming

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Environmental anthropology

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Understanding the well-being of an area and the people within it

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Ethnographic anthropology

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Studying culture

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Linguistic anthropology

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Seeks to explain the very nature of language and its use by humans

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Physical anthropology

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Traces of biological origins and genetic identity

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Museum anthropology

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Interprets ethnographic and archaeological collection to/for the public

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Business anthropology

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Gaining better understanding of their activities and their customers

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Medical anthropology

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Seeks to better understand factors that influence people’s health and well-being

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Endography

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The written account of a culture

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Sociocultural anthropology

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Seeks to understand the interlocking of societies through endography

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Bride’s price

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An economic exchange by the groom’s family to bride’s family upon marriage

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Consanguinity

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Members of family related by blood

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Band

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Small group of related people

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Apartheid

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Racial, political and economic segregation of non-European people

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Cannibalism

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Consuming human flesh

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Charismatic

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The ability to lead and influence a large number of people

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Big-man

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A form of leadership in tribes when the leader achieves power and influence based on their abilities

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Bi-local

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Live near both of the spouses’ families

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New-local

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Living near neither of the sposes’ families

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Acculturation

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Culture exchange resulting from contact between culture

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Assimilation

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When one cultural group absorbs another so that the cultural traits aren=t recognizable

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Cultural relativism

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Understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging these practises against your own

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Dowry

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A woman brings this with her when leaving childhood family home and into marriage

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Division of labour

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Dividing tasks between genders, ages, knowledge, abilities

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Egalitarian

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A society without formalized differences in access to power, influence and wealth

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Endogamy

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Rules requiring selection of a marriage partner from within a particular group

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Genealogy

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A family tree or web of kinship relationships traced through parents and children

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Humanism

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Concerns for human welfare, dignity and values

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Life stages

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Zygote 0-2 weeks 
Embryo 2-8 weeks 
Fetus 8weeks - birth 
Infant 0-1
Toddler 1-3
Pre-schooler 3-5 (up to here most important for intellectual development)
Early childhood 5-8
Late childhood 8-13
Adolescent 13-18
Young adult 18-25
Adult 5-65
Elder 65-death
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Ideal

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What people think the situation should be

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Exogamy

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Rules required for selection of marriage partner from outside of a particular group

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Ethics

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The principles of conduct governing an individual or group considering what is right or wrong, good or bad

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Extinction

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When a culture or species die out forever

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Interdisciplinary

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Two or more specialists from different disciplines working together to interlink their analyses

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Kindred

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People related to one another through blood, marriage or adoption

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Lineage

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A group can trace their genealogical link to a known common ancestor

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Matrilineal

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Descent traced exclusively through female line

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Patrilineal

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Descent traced exclusively through male line

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Modernization

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The process by which cultures are forced to accept outside traits

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Nature vs nurture

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Nature: biological
Nurture: environmental or cultural

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