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What are the subdisciplines of Anthropology?
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Applied Anthropology
Social Anthropology Ethnography ethnology cultural anthropology Archaeology Palaeontology Biological anthropology |
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Holism:
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The principle that aspects of a culture are likely to be, to some extent, interrelated, leading to the research principle that it is useful to explore the possible interconnections within a culture.
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Ethnocentrism:
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The use of one's own cultural values, models, or categories to understand and judge antoher culture.
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cultural Relativism:
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The principle that each culture has its own moral integrity and shouldnot be judged by the standards of other cultures.
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Ethnographic present:
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A convenient fiction. Describing a culture as it presumably existed before some particular outside intrusion began to modernize it.
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Emic vs. Etic:
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Ideas, categories, and explanations of the people themselves Vs. The use of culture-neutral, "scientific" terms and categories to describe a culture.
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What is culture?
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A working definition learned, shared ideas about behavior.
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Latah:
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Hyper-starteling
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syncretism:
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The incorporation of traits from another culture into the pattern of a culture.
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Subculture:
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A convenient way to refer to various cultural patterns shared by smaller numbers of people within a broader culture.
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Ethnography:
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That branch of anthropology which studies particular cultures.
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Rashomon effect:
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The idea that one's fieldwork is affected by personal baggage like one's age, gender, ethnicity, theoretical orientations, and such , and that no ethnographer can be a totally neutral being without attributes.
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Participant observation:
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A research method in anthropology taking fieldwork a step further and actually goining in the life and work of the people.
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Ethnology:
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The anthropological coparisons of cultures.
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Historical Particularism:
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Am approach especially associated with Franz boas, accounting ofr cultural institutions by detailing hte unique hisotrical development without concern for the general principles involved.
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