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Exam 1 Flashcards

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4 sub-fields of anthropology and what they are?

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  1. Cultural Anthro
    - focuses on cultural variations among humankind
  2. Archaeological Anthro
    - study of human life and culture through examination remaining materials
  3. Biological or Physical Anthro
    - Study of behavioral variations. Scientific, extinct ancestors
  4. Linguistic Anthro
    - How language influences life
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Holistic/comparative perspective

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big thing that separates Anthro from social fields.
•cross cultural understanding of humanity
•focusses on cultural as a whole
•comes from a verity of fields

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Adapting with biological and cultural means. Do we do this?

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Yes

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American teenage hugging-what this

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Look at slide 12.

They are not static

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​Social Science/Humanities

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Define Culture

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• Adaptability, not genetic

-the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

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Define Ethnography

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the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.

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What is Anthropology

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The study of human species and it’s immediate ancestors, exploration of human diversity in time and space

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​“psychic unity of man”

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The psychic unity of humans implies that regardless of the cultural input you offer a newborn he/she will always be capable of understanding how to act as a full member of that society.

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Define a Symbol

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a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

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Define Acculuration

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the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture. An exchange between 2 or more cultures

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U.S. view on culture

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Individualism is important

Cultural is downplayed

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Define Ethnocentrism

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Believing that your culture is better than others.

Judging other cultures

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Define Cultural Relativism

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Being judge by your own members of your culture

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Explain Forced Deffusion

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takes place when one culture defeats another and forces its beliefs and customs onto the conquered people.

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Define Cultural shock

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Overwhelming feeling when going into a different culture

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Key Cultural Consultant

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Someone who is an expert of something

17
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Define Emic

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Research that studies one single culture to understand culture-specific behavior. researchers study behavior through the eyes of the people who live in that culture.

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Define Etic

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Research that compares psychological phenomena across cultures to discover universal behaviors. the research aims to compare and contrast behaviors across cultures to find out whether the behavior is culture specific or universal.

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Lévi-Strauss Structuralism

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  • human minds
  • we share humanistic character.
  • we think a like
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Boas-contributions to anthropology

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Ask about it

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​Unilinear Evolutionism/Morgan and Tylor

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Ask about this

22
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techniques

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“There’s only one line of path”

61-62

23
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Characteristics of ethnographic field

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PowerPoint 56-68 ch3

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​Aims of development projects

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  • things that is is aiming to accomplish
  • wanting to change but not too much
  • respecting, wanting input from local groups
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Increased Equity

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Common goals

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Define Overinnovation

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Trying to shape the world into something unrealistic

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Underdefferentation

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Tendency to view so called less developed countries as being more a like than they are

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Robert Redfield-urban and rural

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He believed that culture is built and divided in city’s 1941

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Illness

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Medical condition at which the person determines how they feel

30
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Medical Anthropology

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  • how different diseases affect different cultures

* biocultural adaptation

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Microenculturation

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is the process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire values and behaviours appropriate or necessary in that culture.

32
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Feature of language explaining anthropologists’ interest in it

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Because it changes a lot

33
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Define Displacement

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Being able to describe things without it being present

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​Black English Vernacular (BEV)

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  • Another dialog of English

* Not an incomplete system

35
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​Orgins of human language?

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Fox P2 helps with language

36
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Define Syntax

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Order of arrange words and phrases to create a sentence

37
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Sapir and Whorf

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The influence of language on thought

38
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Explain Diglossia

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Example:
High English
Low English (BEV)

39
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Define ​Daughter Languages

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Language descended from another language through genetic descent

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