Chapter One

Question 1

Define Anthropology

Answer 1

The study of humankind across all times and places

Question 2

Define holistic perspective

Answer 2

A defining principle of anthropology. Various parts of human culture must be viewed in the broadest context

Question 3

Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

Belief that ones own culture is the only proper way

Question 4

applied anthropology

Answer 4

use of multiple anthro. fields applied to solve a problem

Question 5

What are the 4 subclasses of Anthro.?

Answer 5

Cultural, Bio, Linguistics, and Archaeology

Question 6

Medical Anthropology

Answer 6

Cultural + Biological together to study human health, shows connections between political/economic and human health

Question 7

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 7

Study of human thoughts/feelings/ behavior in context of humans as culture producing and reproducing creatures.

Question 8

Culture

Answer 8

A society’s shared/socially transmitted ideas/values which are used to generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior

Question 9

Anthro’s defining feature is-

Answer 9

It’s concept of culture

Question 10

Ethnography

Answer 10

detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork

Question 11

Participant observation

Answer 11

in ethnography
technique of learning a culture through social participation and observation
also interviews and discussion

Question 12

Relationship between ethnography and ethnology?

Answer 12

Ethnography produces raw data for ethnology

Question 13

Linguistic Anthropology

Answer 13

Study of human language - looking at structural/social/historical relation to social contexts

Question 14

Most unique human feature?

Answer 14

Complex language

Question 15

Descriptive linguist

Answer 15

study a language’s structure, grammar, syntax

Question 16

Historical Linguist

Answer 16

Track changes in language to understand the human past

Question 17

Linguistic Relativity

Answer 17

Linguistic diversity reflect different ways of making sense of the real world

Question 18

Archaeology

Answer 18

Study of cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data

Question 19

Historical Archaeology

Answer 19

Study of places for which written records do not exist

Question 20

Bioarcheology

Answer 20

Study of human remains, ie bones/teeth, to determine the influence of culture and environment on human biological variation

Question 21

Cultural Resource Management

Answer 21

Branch of Archaeology concerned with survey/excavation of archaeological remains that might be threatened by construction. Involved in protection of historical spaces.

Question 22

Biological anthropology

Answer 22

The study of humans as a biological organism