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What is Anthropology? Unit 1

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show Also known as social or sociocultural anthropology. The study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings. It focuses on humans as culture-producing and culture-reproducing creatures.  
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show Cultural Anthropology, Archaelogy, Physical Anthropoology; and Linguistic Anthropology  
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show a. Holism b. Realativism c. Comparativism d. Ethnocentrism e. Cultural Relativism  
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What is the difference between Ethnocentism and Cultural Relativism?   show
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show A written decription of a single culture. Example: Ruth Underhill (traditional)  
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Define Culture:   show
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What is Ethnology?   show
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show Living and participating in the daily lives of people being studied without actually becoming a member of the culture.  
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show A specific period of time during which a culture is studied and information is recorded. (A snapshot in time)  
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show 1. What people make - material culture 2. What people think 3. The way people act or behave  
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show A culture within a mulitcultural society. Social groups w/i a larger society. Same distinctive language, beliefs, and behaviors.  
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show A dependant culturally distinct population that forms part of a larger state and that formally was autonomous (African Americans)  
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What are some of the aspects of World View?   show
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show Generalizations and steriotypes.People overuse resources and produce garbage (less people = less garbage)  
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show Refers to the culture change that occurs when 2 or more cultures come into contact and the smaller scale population (non-western)changes  
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Define Holistic Perspective   show
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show General theoretical ideas about humans or human societies or cultures must be tested from a comparative perspective. (nature, sexuality,warfare,family,and relationships)  
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show All cultures have intrinsic worth and must be understood on their own terms. No culture is inherently superior or inferior to any other. Your culture does it this way, we do it that way.  
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Define Archaeology   show
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What is Biological (or physical) anthropology?   show
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show Linquistic Antrhopology – Study of human language (the human language is the most complex). Including historical connections and documentation of language that are going extinct.  
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Define Ethnography   show
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Define Ethnology   show
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show Focusing on the interaction of biology and culture  
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show The study of humankind in all times and places.  
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show A fundamental principle of anthropology: that the various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence.  
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show the application of anthropology to the solution of human problems  
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What is fieldwork?   show
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