Chapter 1

Question 1

Anthropological Perspective

Answer 1

Approach to human condition that’s hollistic, comparative, and evolutionary

Question 2

Anthropology

Answer 2

Study of human nature, society and history

Question 3

Applied Anthropology

Answer 3

Use of information gathered from other anothro specialties to solve practical problems within and between cultures

Question 4

Archaeology

Answer 4

Studying the material left behind by our ancestors

Question 5

Binary Opposition

Answer 5

Pair of opposites used as organizing principle

Question 6

Biocultural Organisms

Answer 6

Defining features are co-determined by biological and cultural factors

Question 7

Biological Evolution

Answer 7

Evolution of resources for human development provided by our genes and others that make up our physical bodies

Question 8

Co-Evolution

Answer 8

Relationship between bio and cultural process that make up important part in environment to which the other must adapt

Question 9

Comparative

Answer 9

Requires anthropologists to go through similarities and differences before generalizing human nature, society, or history

Question 10

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 10

Studies different beliefs and behaviours between cultures and how they’re shaped

Question 11

Cultural Evolution

Answer 11

Evolution of beliefs and behaviours all cultures go through

Question 12

Culture

Answer 12

Sets of learned behaviours and ideas that humans acquire as members of a society

Question 13

Determinism

Answer 13

Philisophical view that one simple force causes complex events

Question 14

Dualism

Answer 14

Philosophical view consisting of 2 equal or irreducible forces

Question 15

Essence

Answer 15

Core of features unique to things of the same kind and makes them what they are

Question 16

Ethnocentrism

Answer 16

Opionion that one’s own way of life is the “best” way of life

Question 17

Ethnography

Answer 17

Written or filmed description of particular culture

Question 18

Ethnolohy

Answer 18

Compare or study of 2 or more cultures

Question 19

Evolutionary

Answer 19

When anthro’s place their observations on stuff in a temporal framework that takes into consideration change overtime

Question 20

Habitus

Answer 20

Everyday routine social activity rooted on habitual behaviour

Question 21

Holism

Answer 21

Thinking of society as a whole and considers human nature as the result of co-evolution

Question 22

Human Agency

Answer 22

Ability to exercise some control over our lives

Question 23

Idealism

Answer 23

View that ideas constitute the essence of human nature

Question 24

Informants

Answer 24

People who tell anthro’s about their culture

Question 25

Linguistic Anthropology

Answer 25

Study of human languages

Question 26

Materialism

Answer 26

Activities of our physical bodies in the material world

Question 27

Paleoanthropolgy

Answer 27

Studying bones of humans

Question 28

Primatology

Answer 28

Study of non human primates (monkey’s)

Question 29

Franz Boam

Answer 29

Studied indigneous people of the west coast

Question 30

Transmission and Reitariation

Answer 30

two of Potts’s five foundations of culture