GROUP 1 CHAPTER 1, 2: JESSICA, MICHAEL AND KOBINA Flashcards
He proposed that no two members of a species are exactly alike.
Charles Darwin
They work at a site on the ancient rock of the Olduvai Gorge in the African country of Tanzania searching for evidence of our ealier human ancestors.
Louis and Mary Leakey
She was one of the first anthropologist to study the behaviour of chimpanzees at close quarters.
Jane Goodall
How do anthropolgist define culture?
Anthropologist define culture as all the learned behaviours, beliefs, attitudes, values and ideas of a particular society or population.
She shows items of clothng from the Pacific Islands. She also popularized anthropology , appearing on talk shows and writing articles for magazines.
Margaret Mead
Is the observation of an individual, a situation or a group over a period of time
Case study
Are used when a researcher requires detailed information from a few people an is looking for explanations or descriptions of thought and behaviour
Interview
What are the three observations
Unstructured observation, structured observation and participant observation
The theory that organism chnage structurally and genetically over time, resulting in the gradual development of new species
Evolution
Was an anthropology teacher in South Africa. He recognized a skull of an unknown species that had many traits of a human being but a brain the size of a primate’s and named the species australopithecus africanus.
Raymond Dart
Examines human beings as biological organisms and tries to differentiate them from other species.
Physical anthropology
The process of training and influencing a child through learning
Nurture
The study of how culture shapes human ideas and learned behaviour.
Cultural anthropology
The influence of inherited biological characteristics on human behaviour
Nature
What is cultural relativism?
The attitude of respect and acceptance
