Powerpoint Slides Week 1 Flashcards
Our view of the world and our place in it is __________ __________.
historically constructed
Our view of the world and our place in it is informed by: (1) (2) (3) (4)
(1) “Commonsense”
(2) Beliefs
(3) Myths
(4) Culture
Anthropology should question not only ____ ___ ____ or ____ ___ ___, but also ____ we do ____ we do
who we are
what we do
why
what
Anthropology make us aware of ____________ bias and ___________ bias .
confirmation
ascertainment
Anthropology should be used to tell us what ___, not what _______ to be.
IS
OUGHT
When you use anthropology to try and describe how a society ought to be, you run the risk of using ___________ fallacy and __________ fallacy.
Naturalistic
Moralistic
What is the difference between naturalistic and moralistic fallacy?
Naturalistic fallacy-what is natural is good.
Moralistic fallacy- The assumption that what ought to be is what is, that the undesirable opposes nature.
Anthropology helps us learn to _________ and __________ knowledge.
integrate
synthesize
Anthropology is the study of human _______, human _______, and the human _____.
nature
society
past.
Anthropology is the study of human perceptual, behavioral, and biological diversity across _____ and _____.
space
time
Anthropology is the study of human __________, behavioral, and biological diversity across space and time.
perceptual
Anthropology is the study of human perceptual, __________, and biological diversity across space and time.
behavioral
Anthropology is the study of human perceptual, behavioral, and __________ diversity across space and time.
biological
How is anthropology different than other sciences?
Othersocialsciences(sociology,psychology,economics, political science) look at one or two aspects of the human experience in isolation.
Most other social sciences focus on W.E.I.R.D. societies, what does W.E.I.R.D. stand for?
WESTERN EDUCATED INDUSTRIALIZED RICH DEMOCRATIC
Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in ______, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to England and to US to escape Nazism.
Vienna
Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to _____________, and eventually to England and to US to escape Nazism.
Czechoslovakia
Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to _______ and to ___ to escape Nazism.
England
US
Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to England and to US to escape _______.
Nazism
_____ ___ _____ (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to England and to US to escape Nazism.
Eric R. Wolf
Eric R. Wolf received a ____ from ________ University.
PhD
Columbia
_____ ___ ____ received a PhD from Columbia University.
Eric R. Wolf
Eric R. Wolf was a professor at the University ________ and later ______.
Michigan
CUNY
_____ ___ ____ was a professor at the University Michigan and later CUNY.
Eric R. Wolf
Why do we need a “historical anthropology?”
(1) Cannot understand the present as a fact unto
itself.
(2) You need the past to understand the present.
(3) Countering “ethnographic present,” e.g.
No culture is an _______.
island
Culture is a ________ process, not a static one.
dynamic
Who are the “people without history”?
The “common” people; poor people and non-elites, both European and—especially— non-European peoples.
Abstracting interconnected parts (like “_______”) keeps us from a full understanding.
nations
What does reify mean?
To make something seem as if it is real.
Cultures are not isolated nor ____________.
homogeneous
Cultures are not _______ nor homogeneous.
isolated
Many view history like a _______ effect.
domino
__________- “It was always going to be this way; it was meant to be.”
Teleological
