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Chap1 & 2 Flashcards

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Anthropology

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The study of the human species and it’s immediate ancestors

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Holistic

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Encompassing past present and future biology society language and culture

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Culture

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Traditions and customs transmitted through learning

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Food production

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And economy based on plant cultivation and or animal domestication

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General anthropology

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Anthropology as a whole cultural archaeology cool biological and linguistic anthropology

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Biocultural

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Combining biological and cultural approach is to a given problem

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Ethnography

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Provides an account of a particular group community society or culture

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What does an ethnographer do

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Gather data that here she organizes describes analyze and interpret to build and present that account which may be in the form of a book article or film

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Cultural anthropology

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The comparative cross culture study of human society and culture

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Ethnology

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The study of social culture differences and similarities

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Anthropological archaeology

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The study of human behavior through material remains

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Biological anthropology

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The study of human biological variations in time and space

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Physical anthropology

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Same is biological anthropology

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Linguistic anthropology

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The study of language and linguistic diverse city in time space in society

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Sociolinguistics

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The study of language in society

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Science

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Field of study that seeks reliable explanation with reference to the material and physical world

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Applied anthropology

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Using anthropology to solve contemporary problems

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Cultural resource management

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Deciding would need saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved

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Hypothesis

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A suggested but as yet unverified Explanation

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Association

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And observed relationship between two or more variables

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Theory

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A set of ideas formulated to explain something

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Enculturation

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The process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations

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Symbol

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Something verbal or nonverbal that stands for something else

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Culture is what give a small explanation of each

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  • LEARNED that human capacity to use symbols observation talk directly or unconsciously
  • Symbolic linguistic but also nonverbal such as flags Stanford countries something that stands for something else
  • Shared unifies people by providing us with common experiences
  • Nature takes natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express in a particular way
  • all encompassing does that affect peoples every day lives sometimes trivial
  • integrated if one part changes the other part changes
  • Instrumental they used instruments to fill their basic biological needs for food drink shelter comfort reproduction
  • adaptive humans adapt biologically and culturally
  • Maladaptive if it helps an individual cope with environmental stress
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Core values

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Key basic or central values that integrate a culture

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Hominid

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Members of a hominid family any fossil are living human chimp or gorilla

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Hominins

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Excluding the African apes all the human species that ever existed

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Universal

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Something that exists in every culture

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Generality

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G culture pattern or trait that exist in some but not all society

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Particularity

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Distinctive or unique culture trait pattern or integration

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National culture

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Culture features shared by citizens of the same nation

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International culture

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Cultural traditions that extend be on national boundaries

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Subcultures

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Different cultural traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex Society

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging other cultures using one’s own cultural standards

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Cultural rights

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Rights vested in religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies

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Cultural relativism

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Idea that behavior should be evaluated not by outside standards but in the context of the culture in which it occurs

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I PR

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Intellectual property rights and indigenous group collective knowledge and its applicationa

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Human rights

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Rights based on justice and morality beyond in superior to particular countries cultures and religions

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Diffusion

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Borrowing of cultural traits between societies such as exchange of information and products has gone on through human history because cultures never have truly isolated

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Independent invention

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The independent development of a cultural feature in different societies

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Acculturation

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And exchange of culture features between groups and firsthand contact

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Globalization

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Accelerating independence of nations in the world system today

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