General Flashcards
1
Q
What is anthropology?
A
The study of humankind everywhere, the study of cultures over time.
2
Q
What is an ethnography?
A
A detailed description of a particular culture
3
Q
What is participant observation?
A
Technique of learning a person’s culture through social participation within the community being studied
4
Q
What is ethnocentrism?
A
Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of your own culture
5
Q
What is cultural relativism?
A
It is the principle that an individual human beliefs and activities should be understood
6
Q
What is acculturation?
A
A change in cultural behaviours
7
Q
What is an armchair anthropologist?
A
An academic who never did fieldwork.
8
Q
When and where did Malinowski go for his anthropology ‘gap year’?
A
- Australia
- 1914
