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What is Anthropology Flashcards

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Anthropology

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Study of humans & human culture

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_________________ are interested in the holistic approach

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Anthropologist

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Holistic Approach

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Where they are interest in learning about both the biological & cultural apsects of humanity

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Cultural Relativity

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Suspending one’s ethnocentric judgement’s in order to understand & appreciate another culture

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Culture

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A complex, interconnected whole that exist of the knowledge, belief, art, law, moral, customs, skills, & habits learned from parents & others in a society

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__________ is the primary adaptive mechanism for humans

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Culture

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_________________ recognizes that the considerable variability of our human experience requires an unbiased cultural relativity approach & cross - cultural comparisons to understand it

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Anthropologist

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What are the assumptions of most anthropologist have about humanity?

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  1. Human universalism
  2. Integration
  3. Adaptation
  4. Culture
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Human Universalism

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View that all people today are fully & equally human ( That people are equally smart, complex, intersecting to study)

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Ethnocentristic

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Belief that other people are culturally & even biologically different & inferior in terms of intelligence, physical appearance, customs & morals

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Genocide

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The act or attempt to systematically kill all members of an ethnic group or culture

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Integration

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View that all aspects of a culture are interrelated & that an understanding of any cultural trait or institution requires knowning how it impacts by other institutions

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Adaptation

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How we flourished as a species through adapting

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_____________ is the most important core concept

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Culture

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Primates

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The biological order of animals that includes humans, apes, monkeys, etc

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What are the three layers of culture?

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  1. Cultural traditions
  2. Subcultures
  3. Cultural universals
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Cultural Universal

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Learned behavior patterns that are shared by all of humanity

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__________ & ___________ are not the same

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Culture & Society

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Adaptive Mechanism

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A behavior, strategy, or technique for obtaining food & surviving in a particular environment

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Culture is non-instinctive which means what?

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Where any new born baby can learn any culture & accept it as their own

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Future Stock

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A kind a culture shock that can be experienced by members of a society who undergoing too rapid of culture change (Ex. Elderly people whol lived before the internet)

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All culture changes throughout time & its not _________

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Static

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Diffusion

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The movement of cultural traits & ideas from one society or ethnic group to another

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Globalism

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The view that the people & nations of the world should become more economically & politically integrated & unified

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Tribalism

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A profound loyalty to one’s tribe or ethnic group & a rejection of other

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Participant obervation

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best way for anthropologist to get to know a society where the live in the society

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What are the subfields of Anthropolist?

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  1. Biological Anthropology
  2. Cultural Anthropology
  3. Archaeology
  4. Linguistics Anthropology
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Biological Anthropolgy

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Study the similarities & differences with non- human species (Study human origins, evolution, & genetic variation)

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Cultural Anthropologist

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Study similarities & differences in persent - day & recent/ past cultures (Study how different aspect of culture affect each other & relate to each other)

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Archaeologist

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Digs up remains, argiculture, cities, etc

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Linguistic Anthropology

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Study how langauge developed (How languages are related & have changed over time)

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Applied Anthropology

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Make anthropological knowledge relevant to the public

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Culture Shock

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Isolation, inability to express self, dislike of differences, etc

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Cultural Relativism

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Seeking to understanding cultural variation within humanity (Promotes open mindedness)

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