Vocabulary Set #1

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Classical Anthropology

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Global Anthropology

Question 3

A society that is unaware/ not interested in other areas. Not connected to the outside

Answer 3

Closed System

Question 4

Aware of other places and open to ideas of other places

Answer 4

Open System

Question 5

the study of human biological variation and evolution.
Study the evolution of species-Darwin Theories, Earlier, Ancestors, and Some extent of paleoanthropology

Answer 5

Biological Anthropology

Question 6

interdisciplinary branch of anthropology concerned with the origins and development of early humans.
Look at artifacts and fossil records of early paleontology

Answer 6

Paleoanthropology

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Linguistic Anthropology

Question 8

The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences

Answer 8

Cultural Anthropology

Question 9

the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
Use a lot by classical anthropology

Answer 9

Ethnography

Question 10

the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
More common with global anthropology
Looking at several cultures

Answer 10

Ethnology

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Participant/ Observer

Question 12

beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never questioned

Answer 12

Cultural Values

Question 13

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

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Material Culture

Question 14

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

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High Culture

Question 15

a society characterized by a flexible structure, freedom of belief, and wide dissemination of information.
Culture presents the society
Open to outside influences

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Open Societies

Question 16

one in which an individual’s role and function can theoretically never be changed
Rejects any ideas coming from outside their borders

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Closed Societies

Question 17

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

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Cultural Relativism

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Ethnocentrism

Question 19

the values, beliefs, and norms people desire to achieve
People feel they should do (quest for perfection)

Answer 19

Ideal culture

Question 20

to the values, beliefs, and norms that society actually follows
What people actually do

Answer 20

Real Culture

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Emic View

Question 22

explanations for behavior made by an outside observer in ways that are meaningful to the observer.
Looking into the culture rather than being within

Answer 22

Etic View