Chapter 1

Question 1

What is anthropology?

Answer 1

It is the study of humankind

Question 2

What do anthropologists come from?

Answer 2

They come from many different societies and cultures

Question 3

What are the factors that influenced the development of anthropology in Canada?

Answer 3

Museums, academic departments and applied research

Question 4

What did the Canadian anthropologists do?

Answer 4

They shape government policies and many advocates for the First Nations peoples.

Question 5

What are the four field displace of Anth?; all sharing an applied view

Answer 5

Biological
Archaeology
Linguistic
Sociocultural

Question 6

What is biological Anthropology?

Answer 6

It is the systematic study of humans as biological organisms

Question 7

What is archaeology?

Answer 7

It is the study of material remains (usually from the past) to describe and explain human behaviour.

Question 8

What is linguistic anthropology?

Answer 8

It is the study of human language

Question 9

What is sociocultural anthropology?

Answer 9

Social anth(British) focuses at a macro level
Cultural anth(American) focuses at a micro level
Sociocultural anth focuses on human behaviour and avoids culture-bound theories

Question 10

What is ethnography?

Answer 10

It is the description of an individual culture

Question 11

What is ethnology?

Answer 11

It is the comparative study of cultures that is accomplished using HRAF(human relations area files) database

Question 12

What is holistic perspective?

Answer 12

It is the view of culture and the relationship between its parts.

Question 13

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 13

It is the belief that one’s culture is superior to all others.

Question 14

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 14

It is the belief that one must suspend judgment on other people’s practices to understand them in their own context/situation.

Question 15

What is Eric perspective?

Answer 15

It is using your own culture’s concepts/categories to describe another culture

Question 16

What is emic perspective?

Answer 16

It is using a culture’s own concepts/categories to describe their culture.

Question 17

Anthropology involves the careful and systematic study of humankind using what?

Answer 17

Facts
Hypotheses
Theories

Question 18

What are the potential problems with framing hypotheses that are culture bound?

Answer 18

Theories that are not theories because they are only bound/only apply to the culture in which they are generated

Question 19

What is the result of using HRAF database?

Answer 19

The information from individual ethnographies(300) is entered and provides cross-cultural comparisons(ethnology) that leads to theory development.

Question 20

What is ethnographic research conduct of?

Answer 20

In the field(in situ)—> ethnographers go to their rear arch site

Question 21

What is gender?

Answer 21

It is a social construct that gives guidelines for our social identity and behaviour

Question 22

What is an example of sex is biological/ gender is cultural(roles)?

Answer 22

The two-spirit in First Nations

Question 23

What are the factors that contribute to anth and humanities?

Answer 23

-Concerns with other cultures’ languages, values, and achievements in arts and literature.
-Commitment to experiencing other cultures
-Emphasis on qualitative research

Question 24

Anth contributions to other disciplines

Answer 24

-Social sciences , history, geology, and biology
-Urban anth. Work in policy, planning, and development of urban settings
-Medical anth. Work closely with health specialists.