the study of ethnic groups and their backgrounds, comparative study of cultural and social life.

the complex whole includes knowledge, beliefs, art, laws, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man.

common human viewpoint is that ones culture is "preferable"

methodological, helps to investigate and compare societies without relating them to

three phases, consist of the first phase (tourism phase), having to navigate and negotiate the language, tends to lead to isolation.

"same time" not entirely interested into the history and more focused on what Is occurring in the moment.

more interest in the history, focuses on events in the past and what led up to current events and how it relates.

the ethnosphere is humanity's great legacy, it is a symbol of all that weve achieved and the promise of all that we can achieve as as the widely curious and adaptive species we are.

Ge challenge the notion that simple material life equates to simple culture. they show that human imagination, myth, social complexity, and symbolic worlds do not necessarily depend on the technological "process".

the 7 stages of technological development, social evolution that has developed due to technological complexity and development. Lower tech development was seen as "savage", high tech considered "civilized".

Trobian islands, founded functionalism, focused on the biological and psychological needs of cultures.

developed the theory of cultural materialism, explains cultural differences using environmental differences and constraints.

known for "hamlet in the bush", hamlet can be understood by anybody, tip can reinterpret how different cultures can be and how there is no one "universal reading".

Symbolic anthropology, getting away from material, anthropologists does this deep interpretive work to become involved in the process, complete opposite from Marvin Harris.

nomadic lifestyles until arial adopted cows, goats, and settled down into private properties and pushed away from the nomadic ways.

benign faith like all spiritual traditions, encompasses a complex metaphysical worldview.

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indigenous people midterm study guide terms

Term	Definition
anthropology	the study of ethnic groups and their backgrounds, comparative study of cultural and social life.
culture	the complex whole includes knowledge, beliefs, art, laws, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man.
ethnocentrism	common human viewpoint is that ones culture is "preferable"
cultural relativism	methodological, helps to investigate and compare societies without relating them to
culture shock	three phases, consist of the first phase (tourism phase), having to navigate and negotiate the language, tends to lead to isolation.
synchronic	"same time" not entirely interested into the history and more focused on what Is occurring in the moment.
diachronic	more interest in the history, focuses on events in the past and what led up to current events and how it relates.
emic	"insider perspective"
etic	"outsider perspective"
ethnosphere	the ethnosphere is humanity's great legacy, it is a symbol of all that weve achieved and the promise of all that we can achieve as as the widely curious and adaptive species we are.
ayahuasca	"gifts of father sun"
the G'e anamoly	Ge challenge the notion that simple material life equates to simple culture. they show that human imagination, myth, social complexity, and symbolic worlds do not necessarily depend on the technological "process".
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Lewis Henry Morgan	the 7 stages of technological development, social evolution that has developed due to technological complexity and development. Lower tech development was seen as "savage", high tech considered "civilized".
Bronsilaw Malinowski	Trobian islands, founded functionalism, focused on the biological and psychological needs of cultures.
Claude Levi-Strauss	Founded structuralism,
Marvin Harris	developed the theory of cultural materialism, explains cultural differences using environmental differences and constraints.
Laura Bohannan	known for "hamlet in the bush", hamlet can be understood by anybody, tip can reinterpret how different cultures can be and how there is no one "universal reading".
Clifford Geertz	Symbolic anthropology, getting away from material, anthropologists does this deep interpretive work to become involved in the process, complete opposite from Marvin Harris.
Rendille	lived a nomadic lifestyle,
Ariaal	nomadic lifestyles until arial adopted cows, goats, and settled down into private properties and pushed away from the nomadic ways.
Waorani	Ecuadorian Amazon defenders
voudoun	benign faith like all spiritual traditions, encompasses a complex metaphysical worldview.

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