Week 1

Question 1

Anthropocene

Answer 1

Period of increasing human impact on ecosystems of the planet

Question 2

Anthropology

Answer 2

study of humanity across time and space (very broad study), anthropologist tell the stories of humanity.

Question 3

4 fields of anthropology

Answer 3

biological
Archeology
cultural
Linguistic

Question 4

Biological anthropology

Answer 4

Study origins and biological diversity, include forensics, history and environments of humans

Question 5

Archeology anth

Answer 5

use artifacts and fossils

Question 6

Cultural anth

Answer 6

thoughts, feelings, actions, history, of people in diff cultures.

May live and adopt the ways of a culture (fieldwork) and write an ethnography (study of the culture)

Question 7

Linguistic anth

Answer 7

study language history, how shapes us, etc.

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

When ppl pf a culture think that their culture is the best

Question 9

Enculturation

Answer 9

When you acquire a particular culture from living in it (it shaping you)

Question 10

Primitivism

Answer 10

When you view other cultures as primitive. A lot of Americans and Europeans held this view

Question 11

Orientalism

Answer 11

Often held by Europeans or Americans and depicts stereotypes the people of Asia.

Question 12

Holism

Answer 12

study all aspects of anthropology and relations (of the 4 areas of anthro)

Question 13

Cultural relativism

Answer 13

• cultures should be judged based on their own values rather than judged by standards of another
• takes into account an insider (emic) view on a culture. put your bias aside

Question 14

Functionalism

Answer 14

interconnected parts have a function to maintain social stability

Question 15

Structuralism

Answer 15

how structures determine culture and change behaviour (but flawed that doesn’t talk about how ppl change the structure)

Question 16

Symbolic and interpretative anthro

Answer 16

Culture is a way of thinking, not about structures. We interpret things differently depending on our culture.

Question 17

Postmodernism/fem anthro/critical theory

Answer 17

Looks at power relations, and culture is changing and constructed

Question 18

Practice theory

Answer 18

Habitus - way of being

• we shape our cultures but our cultures also shape us

Question 19

Edward Taylor says

Answer 19

cultures pass through stages of development (flawed that it can undermine other cultures labelling them as less developed)

Question 19

Franz Boas says

Answer 19

Cultures develop in different directions based on social and environmental conditions (more progressive view)

Question 20

Recent views on culture

Answer 20

culture is socially constructed, complex and a whole working system.

Question 21

Culture

Answer 21

set of beliefs, practices, symbols that are learned and shared and binds ppl

Question 22

Holistic view in anthropology

Answer 22

social, cultural environmental aspects and relationships

Question 23

contextual view in anthropology

Context and Frame

Answer 23

• Context/frame - everything relevant (context) that surrounds an issue

Question 24

socialization

Answer 24

learn behaviour in culture

Question 25

culture transformation

Answer 25

pass on norms traditions stories etc.

Question 26

Relativism

Question 27

Emic perspective vs Etic perspective

Answer 27

Emic - understand culture from an insiders perspective

Etic - outsiders view (can be used for cross cultural comparisons e.g.)

Question 28

Critiques of cultural relativism

Answer 28

• underrepresent marginalised groups
• moral questions