ANTHROPOLOGY, POL SCI, SOCIOLOGY Flashcards
window to our past, mirror of our present, and a lens through which we look to the future
anthropology
culture and origin
anthropology
anthropology of political dynasty
stems from family culture of filipinos.
for security, not individualistic, to presernve success we need our families.
Not just a political issue
________ research, observe, analyze, and apply many variations of human condition. They observe behavior, patterns of events, connections of perspectives.
anthropologists
anthropos means ________
man
logos means ________
science or study
man is context of study
anthropology
What are 4 goals of anthropology?
- Analyze similarities and differences of culture.
- assess cultural development
- analayze biological evolution
- explain human biological diversity
What are 4 goals of anthropology?
- Analyze similarities and differences of culture.
- assess cultural development
- analayze biological evolution
- explain human biological diversity
field of anthropology that describes and explain BIOLOGICAL evolution of species. Observes where we are closely related.
Biological Anthropology
2 branches of biological anthropology
- Paleoanthropology
- Primatology
This discovers human evolution through fossils and ancient ancestors
Paleoanthropology
Example of this is african eve theory
paleoanthropology
All comes from a single woman, and all of us has a black gene
african eve theory
study of animal relatives like learning about the ability of monkey and people.
primatology
humans have the same brain with _________
chimpanzees
This is the study of adaptation made by human groups to the diverse ecosystem of the earth.
cultural anthropology
2 major areas of cultural anthropology
- Ethnography
- Ethnology
This is the application of anthropology which provides a descriptive study of culture through observation.
Ethnography
characterizes microculture of a group; specifics; not focuses on differences instead, focuses on similarities
ethnography
You do thematic analysis and fieldwork to find this
ethnography
comparative analysis
community 1 vs community 2
differences/similarities
perspectives in 2 certain communities
ethnology
Archeology
study of remains of precious culture as means of reconstructing the lifeways of people in past.
example: fossils/remains