vocab review 1 and 2

Question 1

Anthropology

Answer 1

Study of humanity (past present future)

Question 2

Paleoanthropology

Answer 2

Study of human origins (genetics and fossil remains)

Question 3

Archaeology

Answer 3

The study of material culture

Question 4

Material Culture

Answer 4

Objects we make, use and give value to

Question 5

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 5

The study of living, changing cultures (people)

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

A set of learned behaviors and beliefs that humans use to create social networks to adapt and change the natural world in order to increase their chance of survival

Question 7

Social Networks

Answer 7

Our complex matrix of relationships

Question 8

FOMO

Answer 8

Fear of missing out

Question 9

Enculturation:

Answer 9

The process of learning the appropriate beliefs and behaviors of a culture

Question 10

Sanctions

Answer 10

Punishments for violations of appropriate behavior or beliefs of the enculturation process

Question 11

External Sanctions

Answer 11

Punishment where they take things away from you like your wealth, life, or freedom (ex: jail)

Question 12

Internal Sanctions

Answer 12

Punishment from within you (ex: embarrassment or guilt)

Question 13

Reflexivity

Answer 13

Asking why we believe what we believe (if you want to understand others you must understand yourself)

Question 14

Cultural Relativism

Answer 14

Trying to see the world the way others see it

Question 15

Dominant Discourse

Answer 15

Un-reflexive, shorthand and ethnocentric language about others (ex: primitive, uncivilized, savages, terrorists, “colored”)

Question 16

Symbolic Communication

Answer 16

Abstract instructions of ways to behave, ideas to believe in and values to hold to show belonging to a social network (culture)

Question 17

Fieldwork

Answer 17

First hand gathering of information (technical meaning)

Question 18

Ethnography

Answer 18

Written or filmed report on the findings of our fieldwork

Question 19

Culture Shock

Answer 19

feeling of being out of place creates a lot of anxiety for people

Question 20

Informants (fixers)

Answer 20

those members of that community that we depend on to help interpret their culture to us

Question 21

Ethnographic Present

Answer 21

• The past
• Throughout the decade it would take a long time to get places ships camel walk then because it takes such a long time you spend a long time there and a long time to get home
• By the time people listen to our lectures the way they lived in the past we were
• Do something to make sure our work is updated
• 1970 transportation and communication is upgraded we can do things faster communication is more sophisticated

Question 22

Applied Anthropology

Answer 22

the application of anthropology theories, methods, and particles to solve practical problems

Question 23

Collaborative Anthropology

Answer 23

People in that community are going to be a part of that project

Question 24

Cooperation

Answer 24

Allows us to be part of social networks and allows us to create culture

Question 25

Ethnocentrism

Answer 25

Judging others by your cultural standards

Question 26

Swastika

Answer 26

Ancient symbol: meaning good luck (sanskrit language)

Question 27

The Stainless Banner (The Confederate Flag)

Answer 27

created by an Act of the Congress of the Confederate States

Question 28

Participant observation:

Answer 28

A research methodology where the researcher is immersed in the day-to-day activities of the participants