Chapter 1: What is Anthropology?

Question 1

Bulletpoint: What are the 5 fields of anthropology?

Answer 1

biological
cultural (ethnological)
archaeological
linguistic
applied (practicing)

Question 2

Where did the word “Anthropology” come from?

Answer 2

the Greek anthropos for “man, human” and logos for “study”

Question 3

Who is considered to be the father of American anthropology?

Answer 3

Franz Boas

Question 4

What are the 2 sub fields of biological anthropology?

Answer 4

human paleontology and human variation

Question 5

Matching: describe historical linguistics

Answer 5

the study of how languages change over time and how they may be related
*historical linguists deal only with languages&usually written ones!

Question 7

Matching: describe sociolinguistics

Answer 7

the study of how language is used in social contexts
*sociolinguistics are interested in the social aspects of language; what people speak about&how they interact conversationally

Question 7

Matching: describe descriptive or structural linguistics

Answer 7

the study of how contemporary languages differ, especially in their construction
*concerns discovering&recording the principles that determine how sounds&words are put together in speech

Question 8

define ethnohistorian

Answer 8

studies how the ways of life of a particular group of people have changed over time by investigating written documents (i.e. reports, records, missionary accounts, etc.)

Question 9

define applied anthropology

Answer 9

is explicit in its concern with making anthropological knowledge useful

Question 10

What’s the relevance of anthropology?

Answer 10

it contributes to our understanding of human beings everywhere&our differences&is relevant because it helps us avoid misunderstandings between peoples