Anthropology 101 Study Guide – Flashcards
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Oscar Lewis
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among the first to write about the culture of poverty
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Robert Redfield
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Anthropologist that used his data from sociology for anthropology
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Richard Lee
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studied hunter gatherer societies
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Annette Weiner
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followed behind the work of Malinowski and found that he was too focused on the male culture
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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Father of modern Anthropology
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Carl Linnaeus
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established his classification of living things
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Greger Mendel
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father of genetics
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John Lamarck
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discovered a different theory of evolution through living species; disproved
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Charles Darwin
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evolution by natural selection
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Edward Hall
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anthropologist who did work on personal space
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Anthropology
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comparative studies of human cultures and their development
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ethnographic fieldwork methods
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research method of living with a culture of people to better understand their lives
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Culture
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distinctly human; transmitted through learning
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subculture
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different cultural traditions associated with
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core value
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primary or dominant values throughout a culture
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holism
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the whole person has physical, social, psychological parts that cant be separated
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participant observation
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research method performed by joining
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key culture consultants
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people who help to immerse inside participant observation
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Four fields of anthropology
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biological, archeological, cultural, linguistics
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applied anthropology
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applying anthropology knowledge to solve real world problems
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emic and etic perspectives
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looking through the inside of the culture and looking from the perspective of the culture of the researcher
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ethnology
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cross cultural comparison
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ethnography
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fieldwork in a particular cultural setting
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genealogical method
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ethnographers way of recording connections through marriage, kinship, using diagrams and symbols
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symbol
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something, that randomly stands for something else
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cultural relativism
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position that every culture is different and deserves respect
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creationism
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belief that god created the universe and all
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catastrophism
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theory that natural disasters caused the extinction of certain animals
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uniformitarianism
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belief that explanations for past events should be sought in ordinary forces that continue to work today
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ethnocentrism
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the tendency to view ones own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people
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acculturation
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the modification of culture based by contact with those with those of another
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enculturation
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the social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations
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diffusion
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Borrowing of cultural traits between societies either directly or through intermediaries
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globalization
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the accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems
