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Cultural Anthropology Flashcards

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Specialization within cultural anthropology

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Economic
Psychological
Medical
Political
International development
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Anthropology

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Study of man and biology

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What is culture

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people’s learned behaviors and beliefs

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How did anthropology began

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Began in Europe academic discipline

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4 subfields of anthropology and what do each study

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Biological or physical anthropology
Archaeology linguistic
Cultural

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5th subfields and what do the researched do

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Applied anthropology

Use of solve problems

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Define cultural anthropology

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Study of living peoples and their cultures

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Some specializations within cultural anthropology

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Development
Environmental
Medical
Psychological
Urban
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Scientific method and how it’s used in cultural anthropology

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The standard methodology of science. Observation
Hypothesis
Testable explanatory

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Difference between nature and culture

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Nature stays the same and culture is learned and it changes

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Key characteristics of culture

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Learned
Shared
Integrated

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Holistic perspective

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A perspective that aims to identify and understand

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Symbol

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An object, idea, image, figure or character

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Values

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Symbolic expressions

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Norms

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Typical patterns of actual behavior

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Tradition

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Practices and rituals/customs

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Concept of humans as biocultural beings

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The claim that humans are biologically hard wired ignores crucial biocultural variations

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Language

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The system of communication used by a community

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Call systems

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Communication systems of non human primates

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Sociolinguistics

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Study of language in relation to social factors

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Linguistic relativity

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Holds structure of language affects speakers worldview

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Ethnoscience

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Study of different ways the world is perceived

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Creole language

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A language of mixed origin that has developed from a complex blending of two parent languages

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Pidgin language

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A mixed language with a simplified grammar, typically borrowing its vocabulary from one language

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Language ideology

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Widespread assumptions that people make about the relative sophistication

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Ethnography

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The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures

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Participant observation

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Standard research method used by sociocultural that requires the researcher to live in the community

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  • Emic -
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  • Emic - seeks to understand what insiders say
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Etic

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data collected according to the researchers questions and categories

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