Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
51 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Archaeology Anthropology |
How did people live in the past, Excavation & Analysis |
|
|
Biological/Physical Anthropology |
What makes humans different from primates? How and why do human groups differ. Origin and evolution of homo sapiens |
|
|
Cultural/Social Anthropology |
Differences & Similarities in contemporary and historic cultures what is universal, what is particular? |
|
|
Linguistic Anthropology |
What style of speech should one use in specific social context. How does language reflect our worldview |
|
|
Applied Anthropology |
Application of anthropological knowledge & methods to real world problems |
|
|
Socio-Cultural |
The study of beliefs and practices of social actors within society...in which societies and social groups are treated as open ended systems |
|
|
Holistic Perspectives |
No single aspect of human community can be understood without exploring it's relation to other aspects of the community's total way of life |
|
|
Comparative Perspective |
Differences and Similarities in contemporary and historical cultures. |
|
|
Relativistic Perspective (most important) |
Look for internal logic of cultural system. Evaluate each culture on its own terms |
|
|
Culture (I think Tylor) |
The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement |
|
|
Culture (I think Geertz) |
Check list approach of defined attributes |
|
|
Norms |
How we think people should behave. Contextual depending on where and who you're with |
|
|
World View |
Perception/interpretation of reality- how we think we should relate to the world |
|
|
Construction of Reality |
Perception / interpretation of reality how we classify / categorize |
|
|
Symbols |
Something that means, stands for or calls to mind something else |
|
|
Polysemic symbols |
Multiple meanings (both across cultures and not) |
|
|
Arbitrary symbols |
Nothing intrinsic, we ascribe it on the symbol |
|
|
Values |
Beliefs about the goals or way of life that is desirable |
|
|
Language |
How does language affect the way we see and understand the world |
|
|
Patterns of Behavior |
What people actually do, interaction in specific social context |
|
|
EB Tylor Culture |
The complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, customs and other capabilities and habits by being a member of society |
|
|
Ethnography |
The account of a culture or subculture based on long-term research/fieldwork |
|
|
Participant Observation |
To grasp the natives point if view Bromislaw Malinowski. |
|
|
Emic Perspective |
Getting into the internal perspective |
|
|
Edic perspective |
Being outside opposite of Emic |
|
|
Fieldwork challenges |
Building rapport, overcoming biases, coming to grips with the mundane |
|
|
Great Chain of Being |
Earth unchanged, hierarchy/scale of perfection |
|
|
Religious Signifier |
Pagan, Christian |
|
|
Pre Evolutionary |
Basically the entire world was pagan and barbaric and the rest of the world was the pinnacle of civilization |
|
|
EB Tylor |
First anthropologist at Oxford |
|
|
Hobbes |
Brutish Savage, the life of man, solitary poor nasty and short |
|
|
Rousseau |
Noble Savage |
|
|
Theory of change |
Changes occur through natural selection |
|
|
Henry Lewis Morgan |
Focus on technology and materials Savagery>barbarism>civilization |
|
|
Franz Boas |
Different environments different needs develop different technology |
|
|
Culture isn't about materials and technology |
It's about complex system of meaning |
|
|
Race is Discredited |
Biologically/genetically meaning less classification. But we make it meaningful |
|
|
Malinowski perspective |
Holism |
|
|
Radcliffe Brown perspective |
Structural functionalism-practices and ideas serve to maintain social order |
|
|
Geertz perspective |
Idealism & interpretivism |
|
|
Mead v. Freeman |
Whether or not Rebellion occurs in other places (Freeman yes, Mead no) |
|
|
Reflexivity |
What shapes our descriptions of culture? Individuality? Our own cultures worldview? |
|
|
Structural Functionalism |
How social relationships are establish into institutions |
|
|
Materialism |
How does environmental conditions affect our ideas and social attitudes |
|
|
Interpretivism |
How do people within a culture interpret symbols |
|
|
Globalization |
Increased contact and movement, object and ideas and integration in the political sphere cultures around the world are becoming more similar |
|
|
McDonaldization |
Business principles informing a specific kind of rationality that is spread to to other aspects of life |
|
|
Friedman World is flat |
Economic and social opportunities are increasingly available to all people regardless of geographical location |
|
|
Samuel Huntington |
Huge nation states, conflict between non western cultures and the west |
|
|
Hybridity |
Blending of cultures, but that assumes that there are pure cultures (there isn't ) |
|
|
Localization |
Process where ideas & objects spread 'localized' into particular social structures |
