Anthropology Mid-Term

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Study of human diversity at all places at all places at all ways at all times

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Anthropology

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Anthro or Andro

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Human

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The scientific study of the classification of life

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Taxonomy

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A group of interbreeding organisms that have fertile offspring.

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Species

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What does sapiens mean?

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Wise Knowledgeable

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True or false: we are decedents of neanderthals

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True

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What unites all american Anthropologists

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study of humans
shared perspectives
four field training
fieldwork

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The all encompassing, systematic study of the whole of the human condition.

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Holistic Perspective

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a discreet (separate and distinct) whole made of up interrelated parts

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System

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The application of anthropological perspectives, theory, methods and data to identify assess and solve contemporary social problems

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Applied Anthropology

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Compares biological and cultural variation between human groups in all places at all times.

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Comparative Perspective

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The study of how human culture and biology change over time (evolution, culture change, and adaptation)

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Diachronic perspective

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The holistic study of the relationship between humans and their environment

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ecological perspective

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The understanding of how human biology and culture interact to influence human behavior and the human condition

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Biological perspective

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Who is the father of American Anthropology?

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Franz boas

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What did Franz boas have degrees in?

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Genealogy and chemistry

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Where was the first anthropology dept?

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Columbia University

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–the comparative diachronic and holistic study of human biological diversity. Emphasis on genes physiology, anatomy, ect. How biology relates with other aspects of human experience

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biological Anthropology

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the study of human biological remains associated with legal contexts.

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Forensic Anthropology

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Reconstructs past human behavior through the material remains of a culture

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Archeological Anthropology

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the study of human culture through fieldwork with living populations in order to describe, analyze, interpret, and explain cultural diversity.

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Cultural Anthropology

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Ethno

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Culture

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The transfer of technology, knowledge, and ideas from more to less complex cultures

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development anthropology

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First hand, personal study of a cultural group through fieldwork, the act of collecting data

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Ethnography

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Who is the father of Anthropology

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Edward B. Tylor

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The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations. Includes ALL Interactions

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Enculturation

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True or False: Culture is not unique to the human species.

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False

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True or false: Culture is in a constant state of change

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true

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Development of the same culture trait in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and stresses

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independent invention

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A change resulting from continuous contact between cultures

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Acculturation

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VOLUNTARY borrowing of cultural traits between cultures

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Diffusion

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Forced cultural change

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Assimilation

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When members of one culture deliberately destroy the culture of another group

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Ethnocide

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Where was the first indian boarding school opened

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Carlisle, PA

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Who opened Carlisle's Indian Boarding school, was the founder of the idea "Kill the indian Save the man"

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Captain Richard Pratt

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To negatively judge another culture relative to your own

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Ethnocentrism

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To remove a cultural group from a given region

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Ethnic cleansing

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Nationality and culture

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Ethnicity

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to negatively judge members of social race based on sterotypes

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Racial Prejudice

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Discrimination

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To deliberately harm members of a social race as a result of prejudice

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What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination

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prejudice is an attitude; discrimination is an action

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What are the 2 ethnographic methods that are required

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participant observation and rapport

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What does Qix mean?

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Ritually hot

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The perspectives of the natives point of view, how they see the world

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Emic

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The outsiders perspective, the anthropologists point of view

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Etic

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Is time an emic or an etic

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Emic; not everyone believes time in linear

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True or False: Ethic Groups are distinct cultures that coexist within the boundaries of a nation-state

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True

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"The complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquried by man as a member of society."

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Culture

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True or False: Anthropologists refer to the people they study as their participants.

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False; Informants

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True or false: Anthropologists are distinct from other social scientists because they exclusively work in developing countries.

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False; Anthropologists work in all societies worldwide

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What are the 4 subdiciplines of anthropology?

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Cultural Anthropology
physical/biological anthropology
archaeological anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology

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The first anthropologist to define culture and holism in the anthropological sense and the founder of anthropology as a discipline

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Edward Tylor

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What are the 5 perspectives in anthropology?

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Bio cultural
diachronic
Holistic
Comparative
Ecological