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Name the five fields of anthropology |
Biological, archaeology, linguistic, culture, and applied. |
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Where did the word anthropology come from? |
Greek, Anthropos meaning man, and logos meaning study |
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Who is considered the father of American anthropology |
Frank boas |
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What are the subfields of biological anthropology |
Paleontology, primatology, and human variation |
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Sociolinguistics |
The study of cultural and subcultural patterns of speaking in different social contexts |
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Ethnohistorian |
An ethnologist who uses historical documents to study how a culture has changed over time |
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Applied anthropology |
Concerns itself with applying anthropological knowledge to achieve practical goals. |
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Culture |
The set of learned behaviors and ideas that are characteristics of a particular society or group. |
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Ethnocentrism |
The attitude that other societies customs and ideas can be judged in the context of one's own culture. |
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Subculture |
Shared customs of a subgroup within a society |
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Cultural relativism |
The attitude that a society customs and ideas should be viewed within the context of that society's problems and opportunity |
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2 types of cultural constraints |
Direct and indirect. |
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Theory |
Explanation of associations or laws. |
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Cultural ecology |
Studies the relationship between culture and the environment |
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What's the culture used to explain cultural ecology |
Tsembaga |
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Define political economy |
Study of how external forces, particularly powerful state societies explain the way a society changes and adapts. |
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How did Clifford geertz view culture |
Interpretive approach. Inform about personal experience not just scientific writing. |
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2 kinds of explanations |
Association/relationship and theory |
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Falsification |
Showing that a theory is wrong by finding implications or predictions derivable from it that aren't consistent with objectively collected data |
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Ethnography |
A description of a society customary behaviors and ideas |
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Participants observation |
Living among the people being studied. |
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Informant |
Person within culture that gives information |
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Within culture comparasion |
Comparing families in the same community |
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Function does language play? |
Expression and unity |
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Is silence a form of communication |
Yes |
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3 non human communication |
Sound odor and body language |
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What's the different between open and closed system |
Human and nonhuman |
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Morphology |
Study of words and sound sequences. |
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Spanglish is an example of |
Codeswitching |
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Reasons linguistic divergences occur |
Geographical barriers, social distance, borrowed words, and conquest/colonization |
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General characteristics of food collectors |
Small community no permanent settlement share labor no different classes |
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Food production |
Form of subsistence technology in which food getting is dependent on cultivation of domestication of plants and animals. |
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3 food production systems |
Horticulture, extensive/shifting cultivation, and pastoralism. |
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Wet rice cultivation is an example of |
Extensive/ shifting cultivation |
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Commercialization |
Increase dependence on buying and selling |
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One reason we produce food |
Over population |
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Diffusion |
Process by which cultural elements are borrowed from another society and incorporated into the culture of the recipient group. |
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Neoevolution |
Theory analyze on how technology changes culture |
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Post modern |
People and power create your reality so you have no reality |
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Feminism |
Inclusion of women in academic and writing |
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Culture shock |
Psychological disorientation by being in different environment |
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Norm |
What is acceptable in a society |
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2 subfields of archeology |
Prehistoric and histroical |
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Anthropos means |
Man human |
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Sampling universe |
List of cases to be sampled from. |
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Single case analyze |
Studying one case or custom |
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Operational definition |
Defining your procedure |
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Psychological anthropology |
Analyzing group behavior and personality |
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Who created early culture evolution? |
Charles darwin |
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Maladaptive custom |
Decrease chance of survival. |