Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Anthropological Perspective

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

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Anthropology

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Study of human nature, society and history

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Applied Anthropology

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

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Archaeology

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Studying the material left behind by our ancestors

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Binary Opposition

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Pair of opposites used as organizing principle

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Biocultural Organisms

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Defining features are co-determined by biological and cultural factors

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Biological Evolution

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

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Co-Evolution

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

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Comparative

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

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Cultural Anthropology

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

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Cultural Evolution

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Evolution of beliefs and behaviours all cultures go through

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Culture

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

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13
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Determinism

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Philisophical view that one simple force causes complex events

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Dualism

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Philosophical view consisting of 2 equal or irreducible forces

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Essence

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

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Ethnocentrism

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

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Ethnography

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Written or filmed description of particular culture

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Ethnolohy

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Compare or study of 2 or more cultures

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Evolutionary

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

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Habitus

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Everyday routine social activity rooted on habitual behaviour

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Holism

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

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Human Agency

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Ability to exercise some control over our lives

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Idealism

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View that ideas constitute the essence of human nature

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Informants

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People who tell anthro’s about their culture

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Linguistic Anthropology
Study of human languages
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Materialism
Activities of our physical bodies in the material world
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Paleoanthropolgy
Studying bones of humans
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Primatology
Study of non human primates (monkey's)
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Franz Boam
Studied indigneous people of the west coast
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Transmission and Reitariation
two of Potts’s five foundations of culture