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Anthropology
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Literally “the Study of man”, a field concerned with culture. Holistic and comparative, organized into sub fields, participant observation, ethnography
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Holistic
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Deals with total variety of human experiences, tries to see experience as a whole, not parts.
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Comparative
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Interested in all types of society
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Biological (physical) anthropology
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Concerned with humans as biological organisms, studies evolution of human species and development in its compactly for culture
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Archaeology
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Study of human past through physical remains
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Linguistics
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Studies structures and use of human languages and their relationship to cultures
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Cultural anthropology
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Studies cultural variation in human thought and behavior through space and time includes how culture influences relations between women and men
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Culture
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A Peoples Way Of Life
Principal contribution of anthropology to academic thought, holistic and comparative Participant observation and ethnography |
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Participant observation
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Not only observe, but participate, live w/ members for 1 yr+ constant movement between insider and outsider perspectives
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Ethnography
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Description of a group of phenomena that can be critiqued or compared
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Sex
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Physical or biological differences between a male and female-chromosomes, genetics, secondary sex characteristics
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Gender
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The meanings a society gives to traits which differentiate males from females
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Nature/nurture
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Not one or the other but both
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Cultural relativism
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Treating other people and cultures on their own terms, considering specific cultural practices in relation to larger culture
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Ethnocentrism
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Belief that ones own culture is the best, judging other cultures in relation to your own
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Edward Tylor
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Culture, or civilization… is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society.
Implies scale of savagery |
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"Civilization"
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Victorian age customs
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Victorian society
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Industrial revolution and British colonialism, women consider housewives with not political importance, lower class often worked as maids or in factories
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Patriarchy
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Male rule
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19th-century evolutionary anthropology
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No methods of participant observation or ethnography.
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