Cultural Anthro

Question 1

What is cultural anthro

Answer 1

Study of humans in different cultural settings, around the world both past and present

Question 2

Culture

Answer 2

Total system of ideas, values, behaviour and attitudes of a society commonly shared by most members

Question 3

Ethnology

Answer 3

Studies origins and cultures of different races of people, eg marriage customs, religion, art, tech, kinship patterns

Question 4

Kinship

Answer 4

Relationship between 2 or more people based on common ancestors, eg siblings

Question 5

Participant observation

Answer 5

Careful watching of a group, in some cases living with members and participating in their culture

Question 6

Ethnography

Answer 6

Written account of a culture

Question 7

Linguistic anthropology, 3 areas?

Answer 7

Study history and structure of language and ways humans use languages

3 areas? Historical linguistics, structural linguistics, sociolinguistics

Question 8

Archaeology

Answer 8

Study physical remains of past culture through excavation and reconstruction

Work w historians, physical and cultural anthropology’s to make sense of past

Question 9

Ethnocentrism

Answer 9

tendency to judge other cultures by one’s own values. ethnocentric view is to look at another culture as strange/inferior

Question 10

Cultural relativism

Answer 10

Attitude of respect and acceptance of other cultures

Question 11

What’s the major goal of cultural anthro

Answer 11

Combat ethnocentric views and respect other cultures

Question 12

Rite of passage

Answer 12

Ceremony, ritual or event that marks change in life status eg birth adolescence, marriage death

Question 13

3 stage process?

Answer 13

Segregation: remove themse,f from society and change in geological or physical appearance

Transition: change from what u we’re to something new, includes learning instructing, guidance from mentors eg driver’s lisence

Incorporation and reintegration: readmitted into society as new person, eg tattoos, scars, new clothes ring etc

Question 14

Make rite of passages

Answer 14

Indicate transformation from child to adult, more common than female and more painful eg circumsitin

Question 15

Female rite of passage

Answer 15

Often involves test of strength and physical or emotional hardship, transition from childhood is around menstruation.

Question 16

4 ways humans communicate

Answer 16

Verbal
Written lang
Body lang
Sign lang

Question 17

What’s the Broca’s area

Answer 17

Section of brain involved in speech production, arrangement of words. Found in ancestors 1.8 million years ago

Question 18

Homo erectus

Answer 18

Upright human