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CulturalAnthropolog
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Definition of Anthropology | Holistic study of human kind past, present, and future, various aspects of human evolution, development and culture |
| Physical Anthropology | Study of human and non-human primate evolution and form. |
| Morphology | attributes/characteristics of what you see. |
| Osteology | Study of the human skeletal stucture. |
| Primatology | Study of non-human primates. |
| Ethology | Study of animal behavior |
| Cultural Anthropology | Study of human groups. |
| Archaeology | Hollistic study of past human behavior. |
| Ethnography | Observation and description of cultures. Involves going out in the field to study:observing and participating |
| Ethnology | Comparative culture studies:comparing info data sets. |
| Ethnohistory | Written records and photography:including explorers, travelers, and missionaries. |
| Oral Historians | info. transmitted across generation by word of mouth:not written down. |
| Culture | Complex whole which includes knowledge belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by human as a memeber of society |
| Enculturation | a child learns his or her culture |
| Society | Group of people who occupy a specific locality and who share the same cultural traditions. |
| National Culture | Shared by citizens of same nation. |
| International Culture | Extends beyond national boundaries |
| Subcultures | Different symbol-based traditions of groups in same society. |
| Symbols | verbal or non-verbal, within a particular language or culture, that stands for something else. |
| core values | set of characteristics: key,basic, central values. |
| hominins | used for the group that leads to humans but not chimmps and gorillas and that encompasses all the human species that have ever existed. |
| universal | found in every culture |
| generalities | common to several but not all human groups |
| particularities | unique to certain cultural traditions |
| diffusion | cultural borrowing |
| nuclear family | a kinship group consisting of parents and children |
| Ethnocentrism | tendency to view ones own culture as superior and to apply ones own cultural values in judging behavior and beliefs of people raised in other cultures. |
| cultural relativism | viewpoint that behavior in one cultural should not be judged of another culture. |
| acculturation | first hand contact |
| independant invention | changesin a culture |
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