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Name the five fields of anthropology

Biological, archaeology, linguistic, culture, and applied.

Where did the word anthropology come from?

Greek, Anthropos meaning man, and logos meaning study

Who is considered the father of American anthropology

Frank boas

What are the subfields of biological anthropology

Paleontology, primatology, and human variation

Sociolinguistics

The study of cultural and subcultural patterns of speaking in different social contexts

Ethnohistorian

An ethnologist who uses historical documents to study how a culture has changed over time

Applied anthropology

Concerns itself with applying anthropological knowledge to achieve practical goals.

Culture

The set of learned behaviors and ideas that are characteristics of a particular society or group.

Ethnocentrism

The attitude that other societies customs and ideas can be judged in the context of one's own culture.

Subculture

Shared customs of a subgroup within a society

Cultural relativism

The attitude that a society customs and ideas should be viewed within the context of that society's problems and opportunity

2 types of cultural constraints

Direct and indirect.

Theory

Explanation of associations or laws.

Cultural ecology

Studies the relationship between culture and the environment

What's the culture used to explain cultural ecology

Tsembaga

Define political economy

Study of how external forces, particularly powerful state societies explain the way a society changes and adapts.

How did Clifford geertz view culture

Interpretive approach. Inform about personal experience not just scientific writing.

2 kinds of explanations

Association/relationship and theory

Falsification

Showing that a theory is wrong by finding implications or predictions derivable from it that aren't consistent with objectively collected data

Ethnography

A description of a society customary behaviors and ideas

Participants observation

Living among the people being studied.

Informant

Person within culture that gives information

Within culture comparasion

Comparing families in the same community

Function does language play?

Expression and unity

Is silence a form of communication

Yes

3 non human communication

Sound odor and body language

What's the different between open and closed system

Human and nonhuman

Morphology

Study of words and sound sequences.

Spanglish is an example of

Codeswitching

Reasons linguistic divergences occur

Geographical barriers, social distance, borrowed words, and conquest/colonization

General characteristics of food collectors

Small community no permanent settlement share labor no different classes

Food production

Form of subsistence technology in which food getting is dependent on cultivation of domestication of plants and animals.

3 food production systems

Horticulture, extensive/shifting cultivation, and pastoralism.

Wet rice cultivation is an example of

Extensive/ shifting cultivation

Commercialization

Increase dependence on buying and selling

One reason we produce food

Over population

Diffusion

Process by which cultural elements are borrowed from another society and incorporated into the culture of the recipient group.

Neoevolution

Theory analyze on how technology changes culture

Post modern

People and power create your reality so you have no reality

Feminism

Inclusion of women in academic and writing

Culture shock

Psychological disorientation by being in different environment

Norm

What is acceptable in a society

2 subfields of archeology

Prehistoric and histroical

Anthropos means

Man human

Sampling universe

List of cases to be sampled from.

Single case analyze

Studying one case or custom

Operational definition

Defining your procedure

Psychological anthropology

Analyzing group behavior and personality

Who created early culture evolution?

Charles darwin

Maladaptive custom

Decrease chance of survival.