| Question | Answer |
| Anthropology | the study of human nature, human society, and human past |
| Holistic | fitting together ALL that is know about humans |
| Ethnography | IMMERSION into a culture to obtain their world view |
| Ethnology | COMPARATIVE study of 2 or more ways of life |
| Language | arbitrary vocal symbols - the carrier of meaning |
| Culture | sets of learned behaviors an ideas - systems of meaning |
| Objective Knowledge | UNDISTORTED, universally valid, knowledge about the world |
| Monograph | book written by Anthropologist |
| Positivism | apply SCIENTIFIC METHODS to ANTHROPOLOGY --> "Science of Man" |
| Modernism | LIBERATION from OUTDATED TRADITIONS that prevent people from building better lives |
| Postmodernism | ACTIVE QUESTIONING of all Boundaries and Categories that modernists set up as objectively true |
| Reflexive | carefully scrutinizing one's own contribution to to fieldwork interactions and responses |
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