anthropology unit test review

Question 1

what is field work?

Answer 1

PRIMARY research techniques taking the researcher into the field/culture they are studying

Question 2

what is etic?

Answer 2

Etic is the outsider approach to ethnographic research

Question 3

what is emic?

Answer 3

emic is the INSIDER approach to ethnographic research

Question 4

what is assimilation?

Answer 4

groups of different heritages are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

Question 5

what is acculturation?

Answer 5

a minority in a society adopts the main culture’s way of life while still retaining unique culture aspects from their original culture

Question 6

what is kinship?

Answer 6

a family relationship based on what a culture considers a family to be

Question 7

multiculturalism

Answer 7

a policy that promotes and protects diversity in a culture by honoring multiple ethnicities, languages, religions, and cultural customs

believes all cultures are of equal value

Question 8

what is robert kozinets known for?

Answer 8

studying online social media behaviours
coining the term “netnigraphy”

Question 9

what is dr. von petzinger known for?

Question 10

what is ernestine friedl known for??

Answer 10

examining societies by gender roles and power relationships (feminist anthropology)

Question 11

what is bronislaw malinowski known for?

Answer 11

(functional theory)

Question 12

what is franz boas known for?

Answer 12

developing the culture history school which dominated American cultural anthro

Question 13

marcel mauss

Answer 13

founded the institute of ethnology of the university of paris

Question 14

what is matriarchy?

Answer 14

sets the mother as the head of the family who is typically responsible for decision making and income

Question 15

what is patriarchy?

Answer 15

sets the father as the head of the household responsible for decision making and earning an income

Question 16

what are the sub fields of anthropology?

Answer 16

• cultural
• archaeological
• physical
• linguistic
• forensic

Question 17

what are the greek root words of anthropology?

Answer 17

anthropos (human) + logos (word/study of)

Question 18

what is cultural anthropology?

Answer 18

study of all aspects of human behavior - lifeways and human societies

Question 19

what is physical anthropology

Answer 19

study of human biology within the framework of evolution emphasizing interaction between biology and culture (human physical variation)

Question 20

what is ethnography

Answer 20

detailed descriptive studies of non-western human societies in cultural anthropology

Question 21

what is evolution?

Question 22

what is a homo erectus?

Answer 22

early human from 1.8 million yrs ago, brain and body enlargement (compared to eatly homo) heavily built cranium

Question 23

what is a neanderthal?

Answer 23

early human with robust skeletons, shorter limbs, vertical foreheads and projected faces

Question 24

who is dr. jane goodall?

Answer 24

researcher who studied chimps in 1957 in tanzania finding them to be intelligent and emotional creatures living in complex social groups

Question 25

what is functionalism?

Answer 25

theory looking at societies as living organisms with interdependent parts serving purposes that help the culture survive (individual)

Question 26

what is structuralism?

Answer 26

theory that focuses on binary opposites and looks at rules for a society (looks at psychology and anthropology)

Question 27

what is a paleoanthropologist?

Answer 27

someone who studies human evolution through fossilized remains (finding artifacts, fossils, human remains)