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AnthropologyMidterm1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Anthropology? | The study of humankind in all times and places. The integrated study of human nature, human society and human history |
| What are the 6 sub-fields of Anthropology? | Socio-cultural, Ethnography, Biological, Archaeology, Linguistics & Applied. |
| Culture | The knowledge that is learned, shared, and used by people to interpret experience and generate behaviour |
| Explicit vs. Tacit | Explicit: what we know, a level of knowledge that can be communicated with ease vs. Tacit, our outside awareness |
| Naive Realism | The almost universal belief that all people define everything in the same way |
| Dualism | The philosophical view that reality consists of two equal, irreducible forces |
| Holism | Assumes that mind/body, individual/society, individual/environment, interpenetrate and define one another |
| Ethnology | The comparative study of two or more cultures |
| Ethnography | An anthropologist's written description of a particular culture |
| Ethnocentrism | The opinion that one's own way of life is the most natural, correct or fully human way of life. |
| Armchair anthropologists | They sat and watched as opposed to participating and gaining perspective |
| John Locke | The idea that culture is learned |
| Auguste Comte | That social facts can be observed - positivism |
| Saint Simone | Comparison of society to a biological organism |
| Capitalism | An economic system dominated by a supply and demand, market designed to create capital and profit |
| Colonialism | The cultural domination of a people by a larger, wealthier powers |
| Political Economy | Economic interest underlay political control of natives and others |
| Levi-Strauss | Anthropology was the outcome of a process which made the larger part of mankind subservient to the other |
| Salvaging | Preserving a culture/cultural traits before they became extinct |
| Three Major Schools of thought | British - evolutionists, structural functionalists and functionalists French - structuralists American |
| Why don't questions always work? | They might just tell you what you want to hear |
| Three Modes of Ethnographic Fieldwork | Positivism, Reflexivity, Multi-Sited research |
| Positivism | The view that there is a reality out there that can be detected through the senses |
| Reflexivity | Reflecting on the anthropologist's own culture, thinking about thinking |
| Multi-sited research | Studying many sites simultaneously |
| Effects of Fieldwork | Those being studied - no harm, anonymity The researcher - culture shock, relationships Humanity - nature, society, history |
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k.anne
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