Intro to Anthropology

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Provides a lens through which we see the world - anthropology is one of many lenses you can apply

Question 2

Major Subfields of Anthropology

Answer 2

biology, cultural, linguistic, archaeological (big chickens like apples)

Question 3

Major Subfield: Cultural

Answer 3

economics, political, visual

Question 4

Major Subfield: Biology

Answer 4

genetics, adaptations

Question 5

Major Subfield: Linguistic

Answer 5

period focused, regional

Question 6

Major Subfield: Archaeological

Answer 6

study of communication

Question 7

Typology

Answer 7

classification according to general type

Question 8

Three learned and shared things of members as a society

Answer 8

ideology, customs, material cultural (I carry mace)

Question 9

Ethnography

Answer 9

Physical description of a culture

Question 10

Ethnographic Research

Answer 10

process of studying a culture

Question 11

The two subfields of biological anthropology that seek to study nonhuman primates and early human biology and culture are respectively known as

Answer 11

primatology and palaeoanthropology

Question 12

When did anthropology become a scholarly discipline in North America?

Answer 12

1800s

Question 13

Lewis Henry Morgan’s unilinear theory of cultural evolution

Answer 13

was built on a racist notion that some societies failed to progress

Question 14

What are the three basic parts of culture?

Answer 14

what we think, do, and have