Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Holistic?

Answer 1

Anthropologist integrate all that is known abiut humans and their activities.

Question 2

What is comparative?

Answer 2

Anthropologists examine similarities and differences between human societies.

Question 3

What is anthropology?

Answer 3

The study of human nature, society, and human past.

Question 4

What is Races?

Answer 4

Social groupings that allegedly reflect biological differences.

Question 5

What is sex?

Answer 5

Distinguish of two kinda of humans, female and male (Needed for biological reproduction).

Question 6

What is gender?

Answer 6

The culture construction of beliefs and behaviors considered appropriate for each sex.

Question 7

What is globalization?

Answer 7

We as humans have the ability to connect with others easier through technology in seconds and through what we like (music, tv, and products)

Question 8

What is field based (field work)?

Answer 8

Anthropologist collect data from direct contact with people, sites, or animals.

Question 9

What does evolutionary mean to Anthropologist?

Answer 9

Examining biological and cultural changes in humans over time.
Change over time and space.

Question 10

What is culture?

Answer 10

Consists of beliefs, traditions, customs, and ideas that humans learn as members of society.

It’s something you learn not inherited.

Question 11

What is material culture?

Answer 11

Consists of objects created or shaped by human beings and given meaning by cultural practices.

Question 12

What is applied anthropology?

Answer 12

Represents an intersection between these subfields and applying them to real world situations.

Question 13

What is Biological Anthropology?

Answer 13

Considers how the interplay between culture and human biology has chnaged as we evolved to become modern humans.

Is looking at how we are all the same but what caused us to look so differently. Could it have something to do with food, land, environmental elements?

Question 14

What is a primatologists?

Answer 14

Anthropologist that study the biology, behavior, and social life of non-human primates (our closest living relatives).

Question 15

What is a paleoanthropologists?

Answer 15

Examine human and non-human primate evolution, particularly as revealed by fossilized remains.

Question 16

What is Archaeological Anthropology?

Answer 16

Looks at the material remains (clothing, weapons, pottery, ruins).

Question 17

What are the three types of Material Remains?

Answer 17

Portable objects made or modified by people known as artifacts
Plants and animal remains
Buildings, pits, or other non-portable elements of the cultural landscape

Question 18

What is Prehistoric archaeologist?

Answer 18

People examining remains from people without writing, including artifacta millions of years old.

Question 19

What are the four subfields of Anthropology?

Answer 19

Biological
Archaeological
Linguists
Cultural

Question 20

What is language?

Answer 20

A system of arbitrary symbols that enable communication and the transmission of cultural knowledge.

Question 21

What is Linguistic Anthropology?

Answer 21

Study language by examining the structure of the human brain.

Question 22

What is sociolinguists?

Answer 22

Study how variation in launage use relates to differences in gender, race, class, or ethnicity.

Question 23

What is historical linguists?

Answer 23

Reconstruct the historical development of languages and study language variation through time.

Question 24

What is Cultural Anthropology?

Answer 24

Cultural diversity among all living societies, including our own (how humans organize themselves by carrying out collective tasks).

Question 25

What does cultural anthropology show and how is it shown?

Answer 25

Looks at material life: Clothing, Housing, Tools.
Also shows how variation between human societies arises out of learned customs and behaviors from living in that society.

Question 26

What is ethnography?

Answer 26

An account of a specific local society’s customs, practice, and beliefs.

Question 27

What is fieldwork?

Answer 27

An extended stay with a local community. Anthropologist participate in and observe social activities.
Involves knowledgeable members of a local society (informants).

Question 28

What is ethnology?

Answer 28

Comparative and often cross-cultural study of two other more local societies.

Question 29

What is cyborg anthropology?

Answer 29

Anthropological analysis based on the notion of animal - machine hybrids, or cyborgs.
Offers a new model for challenging rigid social, political, or economic boundaries.
Looks at how “natural” boundaries are separated by gender, sexuality,class, and race.

Question 30

How does applied anthropology work?

Answer 30

Uses information from the four fields to identify and solve contemporary issues.
By using practical cross-cultural solutions: public health, health care, economic development, refugees.

Question 31

What is medical anthropology?

Answer 31

Focuses on health in cultural context.
Factors that contribute to disease or illness.
Ways societies react and handle disease and illness.

Question 32

What is critical medical anthropology?

Answer 32

Links local health and illness to national or global social, economic, and political processes.

Question 33

Why study anthropology?

Answer 33

Human fossils
Ancient artifacts
Closest living relatives in the animal kingdom
Customs of people around the world