Midterm 1 Flashcards
What is anthropology?
Study of human history, society and languages.
What are the four specifics of anthropology?
Biological, Archeology, Linguistics, Cultural.
What is culture?
Shared knowledge of beliefs and ideas.
Methods of Anthropology?
Fieldwork, writing in journals, interviews, test and surveys.
Define Applied anthropology.
Research that solved practical problems.
Define Public anthropology.
Addressing problems beyond discipline. Social debates.
Define Ethnography.
Written or filmed description of a particular culture.
Define Qualitative and Quantitative and which one anthropologists use.
Qualitative is interviews and Quantitative is numbers and data. Anthros use Quantitative more.
Define Objective knowledge.
Knowledge that is true to all people of reality.
Characteristics of Biological anthro.
Paleoanthropology, Human biology, Primatology.
Characteristics of Archeology.
Prehistoric, Historical Archeology.
Characteristics of linguistic anthro.
Descriptive, Comparative and Historical linguistics.
Define Ethnology.
Study of cultures to explain human behaviour.
Define Ethnocentrism.
Judging other cultures from one’s own culture.
Characteristics of Cultural Anthropology.
Fieldwork and participant observation, Ethnography/Ethnology, Comparative, Holistic and Critical perspective.
