Exam 1

Question 1

culture consists of everything on a list of topics that follow organization, religion, and economy

Answer 1

Topical

Question 2

culture is a social heritage, or tradition that is passed through generations

Answer 2

historical

Question 3

culture is ideals, values, or rules for living

Answer 3

normative

Question 4

culture is shared, learned human behaviour a way of life

Answer 4

behavioural

Question 5

culture is a way for humans to solve problems of adapting living in environment together

Answer 5

functional

Question 6

culture complex of ideas, or learned habits that inhabit impulses and distinguish people from animals

Answer 6

mental

Question 7

consists of patterned and interrelated ideas, symbols or behaviours

Answer 7

structural

Question 8

culture is based on arbitrarily assigned meanings that are shared by a society

Answer 8

symbolic

Question 9

whole picture, all facets of human life interrelated. small scale vs. large scale societies

Answer 9

holism

Question 10

seek to understand others POV response to ethnocentrism. linked to holism

Answer 10

relativism

Question 11

cross-cultural comparison and the comparitive approach. self- other (us and them)

Answer 11

comparison

Question 12

systems of relationships

Answer 12

social structure

Question 13

core concepts of evolutionary perspective. the transfer of genes

Answer 13

adaptation

Question 14

humans have adapted by manipulating environments through cultural means. culture changes over time. depend more on cultural adaptation.

Answer 14

culture and adaptation

Question 15

difference - common cultural perspective transmitted through learning

Answer 15

enculturation

Question 16

2 techniques for surveys and interviews

Answer 16

quantitive vs. qualitative enumerated/statistical descriptive/interpretive

Question 17

trained encounter ,ask questions anthro matter. acknowledgment of dialogue between the anthropologist and _____

Answer 17

informants

Question 18

local knowledge. how people think, percieve, categorize the world natives POV

Answer 18

emic

Question 19

shift focus from natives POV to anthropologists concepts, explanations

Answer 19

etic

Question 20

us and acknowledgment of negotiated reality and intersubjective knowledge

Answer 20

reflexivity

Question 21

mutually constructed ground of experience and understanding dialogue between anthropologist and informant

Answer 21

negotiated reality

Question 22

4 fields of discipline

Answer 22

1- archaeology
2- bio- anthropology
3- linguistic anthro
4- social/cultural anthro

Question 23

human universals

Answer 23

birth, sexuality, puberty, death

Question 24

description of particular people, culture, society

Answer 24

ethnohistory

Question 25

1832-1917, primitive culture, savagery, 3 levels of social evolution to types of religion

Answer 25

E.B Tylor

Question 26

1818-1881, league of Iroquois, systems of consanguinity and affinity, ancient society

Answer 26

Lewis henry Morgan