L1 (Cultural Anthropology) The Four Fields of General Anthropology Flashcards
Origin of Anthropology
Western
Continent/s that has or have a political take on Anthropology
Latin America and Africa
Continent/s that only associate/s Anthropology to Cultural Anthropology
Europe and other parts of the world aside from North America
The continent that has four fields in Anthropology
North America
Archaeology or ______
Prehistory
Focuses on past cultures by examining material remains
Archaeology
Four Examples of Material Remains
- Stone and bone tools
- Skeletal material
- Remains of buildings
- Refuse
Type of refuse. Broken pieces of pottery.
Postherds
Type of refuse. Fossilized fecal matter.
Corpolites
The traditional focus of archaeological research
grand sites and artifacts
Smalls towns and villages, and simple everyday life was overlooked.
capital-centric bias of traditional archaeological research
The current focus of archaeological research
center-local interactions
Other term for Biological Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Focuses on the understanding of human variation, adaptation, and change by studying many forms of life, human, and non-human, past and present
Biological or Physical Anthropology
Which subfield of Biological Anthropology studies nonhuman primates and compares their behavior to human primates?
Primatology
Which subfield of Biological Anthropology studies prehistoric diseases?
Paleopathology
This subfield of Biological Anthropology studies human growth and development, nutrition, health and changes due to numerous factors in the current world, and genetic distributions across population and how genetic change occurs over time.
Contemporary Human Biological Variation
This subfield of Biological Anthropology views culture & society by the rules of Darwin’s natural selection and group fitness.
Sociobiology
One original focus of Linguistic Anthropology is to document disappearing __________ languages.
Native American
Another focus of Linguistic Anthropology is to learn to document ___________ of cultures with no _________.
unwritten languages, writing system
The field of Anthropology that is believed by some anthropologist to have declined in importance.
Linguistic Anthropology
Languages change all the time, it needs to be _____ and _____.
documented, analyzed
Examples of new media that Linguistic Anthropology currently branches out to.
mass media
email
music
ads
movies
social media
Other term for Cultural Anthropology
Social Anthropology
This field of Anthropology studies how culture differ from or resembles one another and why, and how different cultures influence each other.
Cultural Anthropology
“Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange,” (Spiro, 1990) means?
decenter ourselves from our own culture
outsiders perspective
This field of Anthropology encompasses all aspects of human behavior and beliefs.
Cultural or Social Anthropology
This field of Anthropology considers how change occurs in the different areas of culture.
Cultural or Social Anthropology
This field of Anthropology is not yet widely accepted as one.
Applied Anthropology
This field of Anthropology involves the use or application of anthropological knowledge to help solve social problems.
Applied Anthropology
Applied Anthropology should maintain as a separate field because it has an extended role, such as, direct and strong effects on the negative consequences of _______.
capitalist globalization
Applied Anthropology focuses _____ interactions and their changes over time.
global-local
An attitude that cultural anthropologists must have.
noninvolvement in change
Applied Anthropology should merge with other fields because _________ should go hand-in-hand.
theory and practice
