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What is Anthropology?

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the study of what it means to be human in the broadest sense

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Holism

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understanding all pieces rather than just the part

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Comparison

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consider similarities and differences in a wide range of human societies

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Relativism

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view the subject in terms of the background or characteristics of the subject

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Ethnocentrism

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the view of ones own culture as better or superior - judge other cultures based on the standards of one’s own culture

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Variation

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genetic differences and similarities

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Evolution

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change in population over generations

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adaptation

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change in the face of some advaersity

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Common Concepts of Anthropology

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Holism, Comparison, Relativism, Adaptation, Variation, Evolution

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Physical/Biological Anthropology

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human biology in an evolutionary framework with an emphasis on the relationship between environment, biology, and culture

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Archaeology

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changes in human culture and behavior

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Linguistic Anthropology

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relationship between language and culture, evolution of language in sociolinguistics

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Cultural Anthropology

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contemporary and historically recent cultures

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Enculturation

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the process through which one learn about their own culture

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Ethnography

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description of lifeways

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Ethnology

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cross-cultural examination

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Applied Anthropology

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application of anthropological concepts, skills, knowledge, and methods to provide solutions to real world issues

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Forces of Evolution

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mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, natural selection

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Correlation vs Causation

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one does not mean the other

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Confounding Variables

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variables that may influence other variables to cause a certain result (these are a problem in correlational studies)

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Ethics in Human Subject Research

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clinical trail issues, Tuskegee syphilis is an example of bad ethics, Stanford prison experiment

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Science Method

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observation, testable, data collection, data analysis, test the hypothesis, reject or fail to reject, replicate

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Falsifiable

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ability to be proved wrong

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Replicable

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ability to be repeated by other scientists or researchers to achieve the same result

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Natural Selection
competition, variability, heritability, adaptation, differential survival, and reproduction
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Pseudoscience
a pretended science mistakenly regarded as being real, pseudo theory promotion and science denialism
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Andrew Wakefield
claimed that vaccines caused autism, celebrity culture
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Vaccines and Autism
example of pseudoscience, caused vaccination drop and increase in disease
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Pseudo-Theory Promotion
celebrity culture, astrology
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Science Denialism
fact resistance, that gender is binary
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Race
appeared around 1500, culturally created, aligned with colonialism
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Ethnicity
appeared in 1700s, social groups of common ancestry, culture religion, etc.
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Ethnic Group
identification with others within basis of perceived common attributes
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Ethnic Boundary Markers
language, religion, dress, physical characteristics, historical processes, etc.
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Hypodescent
automatic assignment of mixed people to the "lower ranking" group - ex. "one drop" rule in south
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Gender
spectrum, cultural, perceived, identity
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Sex
spectrum based on layers: chromosomal, fetal gonadal, fetal hormonal, internal reproductive, external genitalia
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Intersex
umbrella term for those who are atypical
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Differences in Sexual Development
congenital, puberty, adulthood
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Klinefelter Syndrome
XXY, 1/1000, male with some female secondary characteristics, mental impairment, infertility
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Turner's Syndrome
XO, 1/2000 female births, sterile, incomplete development of secondary sexual characteristics, short, broad chest, webbed neck
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Trisomy X
XXX, 1/1000, physically normal, increase in sterility, learning disabilities, more than 3 Xs is severe cognitive impairment
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XYY Syndrome
1/1000 male births, fertile, above average height and muscle, increase learning disabilities, aggressive (controversial)
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Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
XY, x-linked mutation, 2-5/100000, external female characteristics or incomplete development
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Swyer Syndrome
XY, 1/80000, y-linked mutation, uterus, fallopian tubes, testes, no ovaries, female external, above average height and muscle
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Guevedoces Syndrome
XY, fertility varies, autosomal recessive trait, female genitalia, surge of testosterone at puberty
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Gender Ideology
a system of thoughts and values legitimizing gender roles, status, and customary behavior
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Gender Roles
behavior
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Gender Stereotypes
preconceptions
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Gender Stratification
division and hierarchy
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Hijras
born men and live as women, religious: follow Mata, not masculine or feminine
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Two-Spirited People
great plains and southwestern Indian groups (Lakota, Sioux, Zuni), born men dress as women, brought in a lot of money as a wife, could take wives
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Manly Hearted Women
northern plain Indians, women with male behavior and roles, highly desirable wife, could take wives (usually elder women)
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Sexuality
complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviors related to erotic physical contact, intimacy, and pleasure
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Pansexuality
attracted to all
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Skoliosexuality
attraction to trans or nonbinary
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Bisexuality
attraction to male or female
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Homosexuality
attraction to same sex
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Heterosexuality
attraction to opposite sex
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Estrus vs Hidden Ovulation
humans have hidden, other animals have visible, connects to the unique fact that humans use sex for pleasure
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Menopause
the ceasing of menstruation - no longer able to have children
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Asexuality
Ace, attraction to no one
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Sexual Orientation
who someone is attracted to
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Gender Identity
felt/inherit sense
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Polyamorous
practice of having multiple intimate relationships
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Intersectionality
how different aspects of a person make up the whole, individuals are shaped by lived experiences
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Great Chain of Being
hierarchical structure of all matters of life, Christianity
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Carolus Linnaeus
father of taxonomy, linked humans to apes, four groups of people: African, European, Asian, Native American
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Scientific Revolution
16th-17th centuries, advance of math, physics, natural sciences
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Enlightenment Period
17-18th, age of reasoning
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George Combe
popularized phrenology
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Franz Joseph Gall
founder of pseudoscience of phrenology, assumed inequality between races, skull shape and IQ
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Biological Determinism
link behavior and physical characteristics, claim behavior to be biologically driven
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Phrenology
the study of the shape and size of cranium as an indicator of character and mental abilities
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Physiognomy
lined features with characteristics and race
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Johann Blumenbach
"variety of man," monogenism, classify based on traits, craniometry, other races believe degeneration from Caucasians
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Monogenism
belief that all humans descended from one pair of people
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Polygenism
Nott and Gliddon, types of mankind, races considered separate species
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Inductive Approach
priority: collect evidence, data generate theory, with enough data = evident relationships and principals
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Deductive Approach
priority: develop, test, falsify hypothesis
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Samuel Morton
father of scientific racism, polygenist, collected hundreds of skulls, selective sampling, biased measurements, others variables
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Craniometry
measurement of skull and facial structure
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Craniology
study of skulls as a whole
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Reductionism
explaining something complex in much simpler terms
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Recapitulation
reconstruct the tree of life, Hacckel, criteria for ranking people
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Criminal Anthropology
Lombroso, belief in innate criminality, physiognomy, examples in nature (anthropomorphism), recapitulation
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Stephen Jay Gould
pushed against scientific racism, the mismeasure of man
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Genetic Determinism
traits or behaviors are biologically/genetically determined
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Paul Broca
founder of society of Anthropology, "intermixing reduced biological fitness," brachycephaly and dolicocephaly
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Franz Boas
father of American Anthropology, immigrant study in 1912: significant differences in head size between us born immigrant children and their parents
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Primate Evolution
Asian branch vs. early Europe branch

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