Exam 1 Flashcards
The subsistence strategy of pastoralism would focus on:
Raising domesticated animals
Regarding marriage, polygyny would involve:
Marriage to more than one woman at the same time
The father of American anthropology is:
Franz Boaz
The subfield of anthropology that deals with interpreting the past based on what people leave behind is:
Archeology
Rituals of ceremonies that mark a change in one’s status in society are known as:
Rites of passage
The process of a cultural form passing from one group to another is known as:
Cultural Diffusion
When a culture uses its values and beliefs to judge other cultures, this is known as:
Ethnocentrism
The emic principal would involve the native or internal person’s viewpoint in a culture.
True
Some cultures recognize more than two genders
True
The study of human cultures/study of man
Anthropology
Father of anthropology
Edward B. Tyler
Study of human origins, genetic variety, inheritance in living human populations, patterns of change of social behavior
Evolutionary
Study of human beings as biological organisms
Biological Anthropology
Study closest living relatives of human beings
Primatologists
Study how variation in the beliefs and behaviors of members of different human groups is shaped by culture, learned behaviors, and ideas that humans acquire as members of society
Cultural (Social) Anthropology