Vocabulary Set #1 Flashcards
A distinct period of Anthropology
Interest -Ethic Diversity, What makes up civil rights, Ethnic Relationships, How does ethics culture keep going compared to those that destroy, Resources, Hunger, and Poverty, Change over time
Studies closed systems
Classical Anthropology
Takes over classical anthropology
4 different time periods- Stone Age to the Soviet Union
Anthropologists have an interest in the problems they had- Hunger, culture, poverty and how it changes over time
Starts in 1990 when the soviet union breaks off
Global Anthropology
A society that is unaware/ not interested in other areas. Not connected to the outside
Closed System
Aware of other places and open to ideas of other places
Open System
the study of human biological variation and evolution.
Study the evolution of species-Darwin Theories, Earlier, Ancestors, and Some extent of paleoanthropology
Biological Anthropology
interdisciplinary branch of anthropology concerned with the origins and development of early humans.
Look at artifacts and fossil records of early paleontology
Paleoanthropology
the study of the distant human past by linguistic means.
Study of language, how language changes, and what it tells us about the culture-Particularly idioms
Linguistic Anthropology
The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences
Cultural Anthropology
the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
Use a lot by classical anthropology
Ethnography
the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
More common with global anthropology
Looking at several cultures
Ethnology
the process of entering a group of people with a shared identity to gain an understanding of their community
The idea that your both observe and participate in the culture
Difficulties you may have,- Being accepted by the culture, Language, Trying not to offend them
Things they try to learn- Religion, belief system, and belief system within the group, Cultural values, Material values, High Culture
Participant/ Observer
beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never questioned
Cultural Values
the tendency to place possessions and their acquisition as central in one’s life, to view possessions as a means to happiness, and as an indicator of own and others’ success
Everyday objects that help with our cultural values
Material Culture
is the subculture that encompasses the cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteem as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history, and philosophy, which a society consider representative of their culture.
Artistic objects
High Culture
a society characterized by a flexible structure, freedom of belief, and wide dissemination of information.
Culture presents the society
Open to outside influences
Open Societies
one in which an individual’s role and function can theoretically never be changed
Rejects any ideas coming from outside their borders
Closed Societies
to not judge a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal.
Idea cultures should be judged by their own values
Hard to do- value judgment on cultures
Cultural Relativism
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
Value judgment based on their value judgments
think cultures superior
Ethnocentrism
the values, beliefs, and norms people desire to achieve
People feel they should do (quest for perfection)
Ideal culture
to the values, beliefs, and norms that society actually follows
What people actually do
Real Culture
descriptions of behaviors and beliefs in terms that are meaningful to people who belong to a specific culture
Within the culture, being part of it
Emic View
explanations for behavior made by an outside observer in ways that are meaningful to the observer.
Looking into the culture rather than being within
Etic View
