Chapter 1: Anthropology Flashcards
It is the study of people, past and present.
Anthropology
It focuses on understanding the human condition in its cultural aspect.
Anthropology
It is concerned with understanding how humans evolved and how they differ from one another.
Anthropology
Katherine Ewing described it as encompassing the “physical organism, possessing psychological functioning and social attributes.”
Self
It is portrayed as implicitly and explicitly existing in mind comprised of psychological, biological, and cultural procceses.
Self
It is the aspect of self that you are consciously aware of.
Explicit self
The aspect which is not immediately available to the consciousness.
Implicit self
He believed that “the self is not static; it is added to and subtracted from by genetic maturation, learning, forgetting, stress, ageing, and disease.”
Joseph LeDoux
It is an interpretation of the meaning of something; hence, in this sense, the meaning of “self”.
Construal
It is typical of the collectivist culture in East Asia stressing the essential connection between the individual to other people.
Interdependent construct
It is the characteristic of individualistic culture, such as North America and Europe.
Independent construct
It represents the self as separate, distinct, with emphasis on internal attributed or traits, skills and values.
Individualistic culture
