Term 3 Chapter 5

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

Culture is a broad term that ecompasses many aspects of the lives of individuals and societies. Culture is the artistic and social creation of human society.

Question 2

What do Anthropologists do?

Answer 2

Anthropologists seek to understand human society by exploring behavior and social structure.

Question 3

What is the cultural iceberg?

Answer 3

The cultural iceberg has a smaller visible section and a much larger invisible section. Individuals don’t posses their own cultural identities.

Question 4

What is multiculturalism?

Answer 4

When the different cultures of ethnic groups live in the same society and there is the promotion of inclusion and shared values.

Question 5

What is subculture?

Answer 5

A smaller cultural group who have a shared interest.

Question 6

What are the ways that culture can be expressed?

Answer 6

1. Holidays and Celebration
2. The Arts
3. Traditional crafts and industries
4. Food
5. Architecture
6. Clothing

Question 7

Explain ‘The Day of the Dead Festival’.

Answer 7

The Day of the dead involves the gathering of family members and friends to celebrate, pray for, and remember those people who have passed away. The holiday blends indigenous traditions with Spanish influences after colonization. It originally began with the Aztecs. The Mexican government made it a national holiday in the 1960s, as a symbol of nationalism and unity. but the cultural tradition has much closer ties with the south of the countries than the north. People celebrate the dead by building altars that often contain different foods and flowers as gifts. Skeletons can be seen all over the place, both cardboard skeletons and edible sugary skulls. Marigolds are the flower most commonly used for decoration during the festival.

Question 8

Explain the case study – grunge music in the 1990s

Answer 8

Young people felt an affinity with the musical style and lyrics that promoted anti-consumerism and a laid-back approach to life.

Question 9

What are the four factors affecting culture?

Answer 9

• Environment
• System of Governance
• Time period (historical or contemporary)
• Technological Innovation

Question 10

What is intangible cultural heritage?

Answer 10

Promoted by UNESCO, this term refers to the different artifacts, values, form of expression, and communities that encapsulate a particular culture.

Question 11

What is homogenous?

Answer 11

Of the same kind;alike

Question 12

What is material culture?

Answer 12

An aspect of culture where there is physical evidence, for example art and architecture

Question 13

What is migration?

Answer 13

Movement of people from one location to another.

Question 14

What are the factors that led to increased levels of migration?

Answer 14

Economic opportunities, the legacy of colonialism and the impact of wars.

Question 15

What are homogenous societies?

Answer 15

In these societies there is only one or a small number of cultural, linguistic, or ethnic identities.

Question 16

Which two countries are often labelled as homogenous societies?

Answer 16

Japan and Korea

Question 17

What are the factors that have threatened or destroyed people and their cultures?

Answer 17

The effects of discrimination, wars, terrorist attack and genocides have all threatened and destroyed people and their cultures.

Question 18

What are genocides?

Answer 18

Genocides is the examination of a specific group (such as religious or ethnic group)

Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.