Powerpoint Slides Week 1

Question 1

Our view of the world and our place in it is __________ __________.

Answer 1

historically constructed

Question 2

Our view of the world and our place in it is informed by:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

Answer 2

(1) “Commonsense”
(2) Beliefs
(3) Myths
(4) Culture

Question 3

Anthropology should question not only ____ ___ ____ or ____ ___ ___, but also ____ we do ____ we do

Answer 3

who we are
what we do
why
what

Question 4

Anthropology make us aware of ____________ bias and ___________ bias .

Answer 4

confirmation

ascertainment

Question 5

Anthropology should be used to tell us what ___, not what _______ to be.

Answer 5

IS

OUGHT

Question 6

When you use anthropology to try and describe how a society ought to be, you run the risk of using ___________ fallacy and __________ fallacy.

Answer 6

Naturalistic

Moralistic

Question 7

What is the difference between naturalistic and moralistic fallacy?

Answer 7

Naturalistic fallacy-what is natural is good.

Moralistic fallacy- The assumption that what ought to be is what is, that the undesirable opposes nature.

Question 8

Anthropology helps us learn to _________ and __________ knowledge.

Answer 8

integrate

synthesize

Question 9

Anthropology is the study of human _______, human _______, and the human _____.

Answer 9

nature
society
past.

Question 10

Anthropology is the study of human perceptual, behavioral, and biological diversity across _____ and _____.

Answer 10

space

time

Question 11

Anthropology is the study of human __________, behavioral, and biological diversity across space and time.

Answer 11

perceptual

Question 12

Anthropology is the study of human perceptual, __________, and biological diversity across space and time.

Answer 12

behavioral

Question 13

Anthropology is the study of human perceptual, behavioral, and __________ diversity across space and time.

Answer 13

biological

Question 14

How is anthropology different than other sciences?

Answer 14

Othersocialsciences(sociology,psychology,economics, political science) look at one or two aspects of the human experience in isolation.

Question 15

Most other social sciences focus on W.E.I.R.D. societies, what does W.E.I.R.D. stand for?

Answer 15

WESTERN
EDUCATED
INDUSTRIALIZED
RICH
DEMOCRATIC

Question 16

Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in ______, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to England and to US to escape Nazism.

Answer 16

Vienna

Question 17

Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to _____________, and eventually to England and to US to escape Nazism.

Answer 17

Czechoslovakia

Question 18

Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to _______ and to ___ to escape Nazism.

Answer 18

England

US

Question 19

Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to England and to US to escape _______.

Answer 19

Nazism

Question 20

_____ ___ _____ (1923 – 1999) was born in Vienna, moved to Czechoslovakia, and eventually to England and to US to escape Nazism.

Answer 20

Eric R. Wolf

Question 21

Eric R. Wolf received a ____ from ________ University.

Answer 21

PhD

Columbia

Question 22

_____ ___ ____ received a PhD from Columbia University.

Answer 22

Eric R. Wolf

Question 23

Eric R. Wolf was a professor at the University ________ and later ______.

Answer 23

Michigan

CUNY

Question 24

_____ ___ ____ was a professor at the University Michigan and later CUNY.

Answer 24

Eric R. Wolf

Question 25

Why do we need a “historical anthropology?”

Answer 25

(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.

Question 26

No culture is an _______.

Answer 26

island

Question 27

Culture is a ________ process, not a static one.

Answer 27

dynamic

Question 28

Who are the “people without history”?

Answer 28

The “common” people; poor people and non-elites, both European and—especially— non-European peoples.

Question 29

Abstracting interconnected parts (like “_______”) keeps us from a full understanding.

Answer 29

nations

Question 30

What does reify mean?

Answer 30

To make something seem as if it is real.

Question 31

Cultures are not isolated nor ____________.

Answer 31

homogeneous

Question 32

Cultures are not _______ nor homogeneous.

Answer 32

isolated

Question 33

Many view history like a _______ effect.

Answer 33

domino

Question 34

__________- “It was always going to be this way; it was meant to be.”

Answer 34

Teleological