Exam 1 Flashcards
Define ethnography
A written description of culture
Name two kinds of explanations
Theory and relationship
Wet rice is a cultivation of what system
Intensive agriculture
What is a norm
Rules and standards about what is acceptable behavior in a society
What is operational definition
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What is Neo-Evolution
The progress of a society depends of the development and use of technology in the country
What is falsification
Proving a theory wrong with collected data
What are mal-adaptive customs
Customs that decrease the chance of Survival and reproduction
Define diffusion
Cultural elements are borrowed from another society and incorporated into the recipients group
Feminist approach
Including women’s voice in academia and analyzing women’s role in culture over time
What are the two sub fields of archeology
Prehistorical and historical
Name the 3 food product systems
Horticulture, pastoralism, intensive agriculture
Who is the former father of American anthropology
Franz boas
What are the sub fields of biological anthropology
Paleontology, human primatology, human variation
Define sociolinguistics
How language is used in social constructs
Define ethnohistorian
An ethnologist who uses historical documents to study how a culture changes over time
What is applied anthropology
When you use anthropological knowledge to solve social or political problems
What is culture
Learned and shared behaviors in a society
What is ethnocentrism
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Define subculture
The shared customs of a subgroup within a society
Define cultural relativism
The attitude that a society’s customs should be viewed within the context of that society’s opportunity and problems
Name two types of cultural restraints
Direct and indirect
Define a theory
Explanation of association or laws
Don’t hold absolute truth
What society is used to explain cultural ecology
Tsembaga
What is cultural ecology
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Define political economy
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Define participant observation
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Define informant
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What is ‘within culture comparison’
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What is the function of language
Communication
Is silence a form of communication
Yes
Name three ways non human communicate
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What’s the difference between an open and closed system
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What is morphology
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Spanglish is an example of what
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Name two ways linguistic divergence occurs
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What are the four characteristics of food collectors
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Define food production
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What is culture shock
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Define commercialization
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Why did we start to grow food
Population growth
What does anthropos mean
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What is sampling universe
The list of cases to be sampled from
Define single case analysis
Explaining one aspect of a particular culture
What is psychological anthropology
The study of group behaviors
Who created the theory of cultural evolution
Edward Taylor and Lewis Henry Morgan
Define post-modern
People who have power shape our reality we don’t make our own reality
