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What is Archaeology?
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Studying way of life that no longer exists.
-pre-historic pasts of social systems that no longer exist and have no record. -goal is to have an understanding of a patterned way of life. |
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What is enculturation?
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The process of acquiring of your own native culture.
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What is Physical Anthropology?
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Deals with Homosapiens as a physical entity-development of sapiens.
-looks at fossils. -concerned with primates-great apes. -understanding of learning behaviors of primates as well as physical development of them. |
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What is ethnography?
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The study of a culture-the end result.
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What is Holism?
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All encompassing, all at once study of a culture.
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What are the four sub-divisions of Anthropology?
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1. Cultural Anthropology.
2. Physical Anthropology. 3. Archaeology. 4. Linguistics. |
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What do Anthropologists look for?
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Large Scale Patterns-Repetition.
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What is Cultural Anthropology?
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The complete pattern of life.
-communities, human behavior-patterned. -the daily life as transacted and ideal life that is theorized by the people of the community. -want to see an entire community all at once. -can tell how life is lived in a certain community. |
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What is Ethos?
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The sense of what it feels like to live in a world.
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What is American Anthropology?
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It is holistic-broad, all encompassing, and all at once.
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