Anthropology 101 Quiz 1

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Anthropology

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The study of the human species and it's immediate ancestors.

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Holistic

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Encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.

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Culture

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Traditions and customs transmitted through learning.

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Food production

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An economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication.

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General Anthropology

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Anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.

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Biocultural

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Combining biological and culture approaches to a given problem.

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Ethnography

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Fieldwork in a particular cultural setting.

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Cultural anthropology

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The comparative, cross-cultural study of human society and culture.

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Ethnology

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The study of sociocultural differences and similarities.

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Anthropological Archaeology

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The study of human behavior through material remains.

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Biological anthropology

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The study of human biological variation in time and space.

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Physical anthropology

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Same as biological anthropology.

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Linguistic anthropology

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The study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space, and society.

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sociolinguistics

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The study of language in society.

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Science

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Field of study that seeks reliable explanations, with reference to the material and physical world.

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Applied Anthropology

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Using anthropology to solve contemporary problems.

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Cultural resource management

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Deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved.

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Enculturation

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The process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations.

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Symbol

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Something, verbal, or nonverbal, that stands for something else.

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Core Values

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Key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture.

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Hominid

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Member of hominid family; any fossil or living human, chimp, or gorilla

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Hominins

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Hominids exuding the African apes; all the human species that ever have existed.

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Universal

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Something that exists in every culture.

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Generality

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Culture pattern or trait that exists in some but not all societies

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Particularity

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Distinctive or unique culture trait, pattern, or integration

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National culture

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Cultural features shared by citizens of the same nation.

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International culture

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Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries

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Subcultures

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Different cultural traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex society

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging other cultures using one's own cultural standards

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Cultural rights

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Rights vested in religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies.

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Cultural Relativism

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Idea that behavior should be evaluated not by outside standards but in the context of the culture in which it occurs.

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IPR

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Intellectual property rights; an indigenous group's collective knowledge and it's applications.

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Human rights

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Rights based on justice and morality beyond and superior to particular countries, cultures, and religions.

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Four-Field

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Biological, cultural, linguistic, archaeology

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Enculturation

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Process in which culture defines us.

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Holistic approach

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Study the whole thing

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Empirical

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What's around us

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Analytic model

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Let's look at everything

can test

based on evidence.

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Folk model

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X people do Y

received

learned

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Confirmation bias

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Doesn't fit your model

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Facts

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True, provable

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Hypothesis

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Testable

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Theory

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A proven hypothesis

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Law

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Because the guy wanted it to be

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Culture

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EB Taylor: That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, laws, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

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Adaption

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Changing with the times

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Independent Invention

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Self invention

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Diffusion

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Trading traits

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Acculturation

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Equal parties

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Assimilation

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Inequal

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Appropariation

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Dominant takes Submissive.

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Mongenists

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Adam and Eve, everyone washed away from the flood. All the people were descendants, Diversity=cursed people

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Polygenists:

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Weren't descended from Noah. Dark people created before white people to be dominated.

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Lyell

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Said Earth is a few million years old. Published a book about origin.

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Charles Darwin

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Studied to be a minister. Was a captain's mate.

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Cultural Evolution

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Cultural diversity

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LH Morgan

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Made culture categories. Savage, Barbarian, Civilized.

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Atlatle

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Spear thrower

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Ethnocentrism

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My culture is good

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Salvage Anthropology

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Save as much as you can

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Cultural Relativism

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Each culture needs to be understood relative to it.

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Malinowski

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Functionalism

Symbolic

Interpretative anthropology

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Radcliffe Brown

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Structural Functionalism

Social Anthropology