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17 Cards in this Set
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Ethnography |
a first-hand, detailed description of a living culture, based on personal observation |
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Participant Observation |
basic fieldwork method in cultural anthropology that involves living in a culture for a long time while gathering data |
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Culture Shock |
persistent feelings of uneasiness, loneliness, and anxiety that often occur when a person has shifted from one culture to a different one |
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Fieldwork |
research in the field, which is any place where people and culture are found |
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Qualitative data |
non-numeric information |
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Quantitative data |
numeric information |
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Inductive approach (to research) |
a research approach that avoids hypothesis formation in advance of the research and instead takes its lead from the culture being studied |
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Culture |
people's learned and shared beliefs behaviors and beliefs |
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Archaeology: |
the study of past human cultures through their material remains |
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Biological Anthropology: |
the study of humans (and other mammals) as biological organisms, including evolution and contemporary variation |
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Linguistics: |
the study of human communication, including its origins, history, and contemporarty variation and change |
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Applied Anthropology: |
the use of anthropological knowledge to prevent or solve problems or to shape and achieve policy goals |
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Cultural Anthropology: |
the study of living peoples and their cultures, including variation and change |
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Ethnocentrism: |
judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture rather than by the standards of that particular culture |
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Ethnocentric Fallacy: |
the mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviors of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one's own culture |
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Relativism: |
the attempt to understand the beliefs and behaviors of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found |
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Relativistic Fallacy |
the mistaken idea that it is impossible to make moral judgments about the beliefs and behaviors of members of other cultures |
