Basics

Question 1

Anthropology

Answer 1

a discipline that studies humans, focusing on the study of differences and similarities, both biological and cultural, in human population

Question 2

What are the subfields of anthropology?

Answer 2

Biological, cultural, applied, archaeology, ethnology/linguistics

Question 3

Biological

Answer 3

the study of humans as biological organisms, dealing with the emergence and evolution of humans and with contemporary biological variations among human populations

Question 4

Cultural

Answer 4

the study of cultural variation and universals in the past and present

Question 5

Archaeology

Answer 5

the branch that seeks to reconstruct the daily life and customs of people who lived in the past and to trace and explain cultural changes

Question 6

Linguistics

Answer 6

the anthropological study of language

Question 7

Ethnology

Answer 7

the study of how and why recent cultures differ and are similar

Question 8

Culture

Answer 8

the set of learned behaviors and ideas (including beliefs, attitudes, values and ideals) that are characteristic of a particular society or group

Question 9

Characters/transmitting of culture

Answer 9

culture is shared, culture is learned, adaptive, constructs meanings, integrated, shared/variable

Question 10

Cultural relativism

Answer 10

the attitude that a society’s values, customs and ideas should be viewed within the context of that society’s problems and opportunities

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

the attitude that other societies and ideas can be judged in the context of one’s own culture