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15 Cards in this Set
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What is Anthropology?
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Anthropos = humankind
Logos = study Study of humankind |
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4 subfields of Anthropology
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1) Cultural anthropology
2) Archaeology 3) Linguistics 4) Physical/Biological Anthropology |
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What is Cultural Anthropology?
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*study of present day people
*study of culture: learned behavior transmitted from person to person *obs. & ethnographics |
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What is Archaeology?
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*study of past human societies
* study of material culture: physical remains & artifacts |
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What is Linguistics?
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*set of written or spoken words
* construction & use of language * sociolinguistics: science of investigating languages social contexts |
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What is Physical/Biological Anthropology?
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the study of human biological evolution & human biocultural evolution
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2 Key concepts of Physical Anthropology
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1) each person is a product of evolutionary Hx
2) each person is a product of and individuals life Hx (genes & environ.) |
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What are hominids?
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group of extinct & living bipedal primates in the family Hominidae
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Who is Franz Boas?
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origins of academic anthropology in U.S.
*from Germany * expedition to study Inuit Eskimos on Baffin Island in Eastern Arctic of N. America |
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What do Physical Anthropologists do?
(6 areas of study) |
1) Primatology
2) Human genetics (molecular) 3) Paleontology: study of human evolution as evidenced in the fossil record 4) human osteology: study of human bones 5) human biology: studies of living humans 6) forensic anthro |
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What makes us human?
(6 Big events of Human Evolution) |
1) bipedalism: walking/striding upright
2) non-honing chewing: lacks large nonprojecting canines in upper jaw 3) material culture & tools 4) hunting 5) speech - * hyoid bone: free floating bone, reflects ability to speak 6) domesticated foods |
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How do Physical Anthro know what they know?
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obs about the natural world
1) data 2) hypothesis |
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What is a hypothesis?
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provisional explanation of a phenomenon
*hypothesis HAS NOT been tested |
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What is the scientific method?
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1) identifying the problem based on earlier obs
2) stating the hypothesis 3) collecting data (obs) 4) testing the hypothesis: acceptance or rejection |
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What is a theory?
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set of hypotheses that have been rigorously tested & validated
* explanations * modified by new evidence ** theory HAS been tested ** evolution is a theory |
