Exam 3

Question 1

shared, integrated, and symbolic pattern of human knowledge
primary means for adapting to the environment
flexible and learned

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

the beliefs and ideas concerning existence and reality

Answer 2

World View

Question 3

development of novel solutions to problems (both technical and conceptual)

Answer 3

Innovation

Question 4

borrowing, trading, adopting

Answer 4

Diffusion

Question 5

loss of a culture

Answer 5

Extinction

Question 6

the increases intensification of interactions and increased movement of human culture

Answer 6

Globalization

Question 7

Divergence from cultures norms

Answer 7

Deviance

Question 8

cultures improve and become more civilized

Answer 8

Cultural Evolutionism

Question 9

some cultures are creative while others are not

independent inventions followed by borrowing and trading

Answer 9

W.H.R. Rivers

diffusionism

Question 10

function to satisfy biological needs

• protection satisfies safety
• activity satisfies movement
• ect…

Answer 10

Bronislaw Malinowski

Functionalism

Question 11

each culture and history is unique

Answer 11

Franz Boas

historical Particularism

Question 12

each culture has a distinct personality type

Answer 12

Ruth Benedict

culture and personality

Question 13

culture is shaped by the enviornment

Answer 13

Julian Steward

cultural Ecology

Question 14

formal description of a culture

Answer 14

Ethnography

Question 15

the study of allocation, production, distribution, and consumption of resources

Answer 15

Economics

Question 16

reliance on wild food resources

hunting, gathering edible and medicinal plants, fishing

Answer 16

Foraging

Question 17

the herding of domesticated animals

Answer 17

Pastoralism

Question 18

cycled gardens, no permanently cultivated fields

Answer 18

Horticulture

Question 19

the creation of artificial ecosystems, with domesticated biota

Answer 19

Agriculture

Question 20

the study of human language both past and present

Answer 20

Linguistic Anthropology

Question 21

describe and preserve human language

Answer 21

Descriptive Linguistics

Question 22

Human language evolution

Answer 22

Historical Linguistics

Question 23

social and cultural contexts of human language

Answer 23

Sociolinguistics

Question 24

a system of arbitrary symbols used to encode, communicate, and transmit culture

Answer 24

Language

Question 25

regional or class variations of a language that are mutually intelligible
differences in pronunciation, accent, vocab, ect.

Answer 25

Dialect

Question 26

open- infinite number of meanings can be expressed
stimulus free- we don’t need to experience something to talk about it
flexible- capable of invention

Answer 26

human language

Question 27

group of relatd languages that all derive from a common protolanguage

Answer 27

language family

Question 28

the use of all fields of anthropology to address problems

Answer 28

applied anthropology

Question 29

participant observation

Answer 29

cultural data gathering teqniqe:
involves- gaining trust, living with the culture, learning language, ect
document details- language, maps, politics, technology, ect

Question 30

Cultural filters

Answer 30

prohibits you from fully understanding another culture due to your structured veiws