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18 Cards in this Set
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What does anthropos mean?
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human
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What does logos mean?
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reason
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what is anthropology?
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knowledge about humans
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what does it mean to say that anthropologt is studied in time or space?
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this means time period or region
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What does it mean to say that anthropology is comparative
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you are always making comparisons when you go into a new culture
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what is holistic anthropology?
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you can study diversity in many different forms (i.e. religion, marriage practices etc.)
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What is society?
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an organized group (ants, cows)
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is culture learned or genetic?
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learned
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what is empirical evidence?
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you have to collect data based on experiments and observations (this is related to the tangible world)
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what is bad about social darwinism?
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it creates a social hierarchy
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what is social darwinism related to?
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hard and social sciences
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what is salvage anthropology?
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it says that cultures are disappearing and we need to save the remnants
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what is cultural relativism?
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every culture has its own interlogic and you have to get inside it to understand it (methodological)
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what does it mean to be ideological?
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nonjudgemental attitude against hierarchy
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what is a phenotype?
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physical traits (hair color, body type)
a.k.a. the manifestation biology ( the expression of a gene) |
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What are the 4 fields Boas offered?
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1.) archaeology
2.) linguistic 3) cultural 4.) physical anthropology |
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what is archaeology
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material culture (prehistorical societies)
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what is linguistic anthro?
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differences in language (this looks at accents and dialects)
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