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43 Cards in this Set
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What is Culture?
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shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and preceptions which are used to make sence of experience and generates behavior and are reflected in that behavior.
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Explain Cultual Relativism.
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Different cultures do certain things differently. try not to judge.
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What does Anthropology mean?
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the study of man
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Explain the Holistic Perspective
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as a whole, emcompassing the broadest set of discipline to understand their interconnections and interdepenence.
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What does an ethnocentristic person believe?
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they believe that their culture is the only proper one.
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What are the four-fields of anthropology?
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archeology, linguistics, soci0-cultural and physical
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Describe Cultural Anthropology
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the study of patterjs 0f human behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Humans as culture producing and reproducing cultures.
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what does applied anthropology focus on?
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solving practical problems
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what is the main idea of medical anthropology?
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the study of culture and biology to takle issues of health, disease, and care.
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what is physical anthropology?
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the systematic study of humans as biological organisms.
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what is primotology?
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the study of primates, living and dead.
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What do the forensic anthropologists examine?
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human skeletal remains for legal purposes.
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What is archaeology?
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the study of human culture through recovery and anaylsis of material remains and evidentual data.
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what is bioarchaeology?
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study of human remains in the past emphasing preservation and social processes.
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What is CRM? And what do they do?
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cultural resource management, they're archaeologists who the government pay to survey the land to make sure they is no archaeologist history
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what is the NAGPRA?
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North American Graves Protection and Preparation Act .
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What is a Midden?
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a refuse or garbage disposal area in an archeaeological site
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What is relative dating?
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in archaeology and paleoanthropology, designativng an event, object, or fossil as being older or younger than another.
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What is absolute/chronometric dating?
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dates for archaeological materials based on solar years, centuries, or other units of ABSOLUTE time
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What is lingistics?
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the study of human language ans oscial context of languages.
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What is discourse?
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an extended communication on a particulate subject.
ex: a debate, you want to know all you can about the topic before you debate. |
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What is enthrography?
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the study of other cultures
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what is a key consultant?
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people of a studied society who supply information.
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how do eliciting devices help the interview process?
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activities and objects used to draw out individuals and encourage them to recall and stare information
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What is globalization?
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interconnectedness, evidenced in global movement or resources, labor, capital and health
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what is creationism?
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explanation for origins given in the bible, 6 days to create the world
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empiricism
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based on observation
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what is catastrophic?
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change on earth over time can be explained by catastrophic events, thoughts that the world isn't old
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uniformitarianism?
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ordinary forces at work in the past so earth change gradually.
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what is natural selection?
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general process by which nature selects the forms that are most fit to survive and reproduce.
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Who was Gregor Mendal?
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found out that there are discrete particals determine heredity---dominant and recessive
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What is population?
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a group of sumilar individuals that can and do interbred
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What must people do to be considered the same species?
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interbred and have viable offspring
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What are the 4 forces of evolution?
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#1 Natural Selection
#2 Mutations #3 Gene Flow #4 Random Genetic Drift |
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At what level can mammals reproduce and make offspring and can reproduce?
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species
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What are examples of shared characteristics between humans and primates
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grasping
smell to sight nose to hand brain complexity parental investment sociality |
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what is steroscopic vision?
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can see in 3D
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What is niche?
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unique spatio-temporal-ecological place. where a species live.
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How do scientists study/classify fossils?
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cranial capasity
endocasts bipedialism |
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what is punctuated equalibrium?
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evolution rapid over a short period of time.
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Give some examples of new world monkeys.
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marmosets, squirell, howler
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Give some examples of old world monkeys.
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baboons, Macaque, Silver Leaf,
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What are 3 ways to adapt?
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Innovate
Difuse Transform |
