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ANP 131 exam 1
Introduction to Anthropology(study guide material)
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/20/2009

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Ethnographic research post 1960's involved what?
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American Anthropology Association

Code of Ethics

Conflict Resolution

Business and Politics

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Ethnographic reasearch pre 1960's involved what?
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Cultural Anthropology of endangered cultures

Museum Work such as cultural documentation, oral history and artifact collection

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documentation of endangered cultures
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Urgent Anthropology or Salvage Etnography
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look at how dominant cultures "force" change on other cultures
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Acculturation Studies
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research that is community-based and politically involved
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Advocacy Anthropology
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solves problems and issues
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Applied Anthropology
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Involves war and political unrest and is used to observe culture via media as well as  interviews with people who lived there and have knowledge.
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Culture at a Distance Studies
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Studies new states that exist now in post 1920's USSR.
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Contemporary State Studies
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social justice anthropology
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Peasant Studies
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This term is coined by Laura Nadar and involves Western Elite, government bureaucratic organizations, Global Corporations, philanthropy and media empires.
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Studying UP
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The investigation and documentation of people and cultures embedded in the larger structures of the globalized world.
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Multi-sited Ethnography
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extended on location research to gather detailed and in-depth data about the cukture through looking at their society, customs, values, and practices
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Ethnographic Fieldwork
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What is required before Site Selection?
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community permission, government permission, and funding
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What is required for Preparatory research?
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reading past reseacrh, contacting others, learning a new language
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What is one requirement for with Participant Observation?
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remove personal bias
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Ethnographic toold/aids
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notebook, camera, audio recorder, video recorder, laptop, key consultants and informants
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Data Gathering involved two types of research. What are these two types and what do they entail?
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Qualitative(non-quantifiable data-personal life stories) and Quantifiable(statistics or measurable data)
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What is one surprising chatcteristic about surveys?
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They are not always as accurate as we believe them to be due to a number of reasons.
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What are some ways of performing research once you are embedded in the group you plan to study?
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Interviews-Informal interview, formal interview, and eliciting devices such as activities or objects
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When an anthropologist referes to the term "Mapping," what exactly are they mapping?
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Places, names, geographic features, plants, animals and geneology
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GPS
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Global Position Systems-use of satellites
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GIS
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Geographic Information Systems-computer software system that makes maps 
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An extremely underused by anthropoligists method of documenting information.
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Photography and filming
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Challenges of Fieldwork
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Social Acceptance

Political Challenges

Challenges linked to gender, age, ideology, skin color, ethnicity of anthropologist

Subjectivity

Informants Consent

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Digital Ethnographic Data

Ethnohistory

Theory

Doctrine and Dogma

Ethnology Incorporation-Comparitive Methodology such as the Human Relations Area Files HRAF

Book

Report Journals

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Products of Ethnographic Research
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theory that stresses the primacy of superstructures within a culture (Cognitive Anthropology and Structuralism)

 

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Idealistic Theoretical Perspective

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theory that stresses the primacy of infrastructures within a culture (Marxist Anthropology, Cultural Ecology and Cultural Materialism)

 

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Materialistic Theoretical Perspective
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our past,present, and future

our biology and of primates

our organized life in groups

with the universal, general and particular, and

Culture

 

 

 

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Anthropology
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that which we want to remember and cannot forget
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Tradition
Term
Passed from one generation to another is a characteristic of what?
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Culture
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not only behavior from one member to another member, but also what is acceptable to eat, to wear, what tools to use, where to live and with whom.
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What is acceptable and what is not in culture.
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Manipulate language ability to understand sypmbolic systems and communicate is a characteristic of what?
Definition
Culture
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The making of tools is a characteristic of what?
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Culture
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Reflects actual behavior, learned through social interaction, non-biological but human, and refers to the global and the local (specific traditions).
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Culture
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Subdisciplines of Anthropology
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Cultural, Physical, linguistic, and Archaeology
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Variation in language in time and space
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Anthropological linguistics
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sounds, grammer and meanings in one language
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Descriptive linguistics
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Changes in language over time. Explains shifts in sound, grammar, meanings and explains differences in language sounds, word choice, etc. due to regional dialects or social class or ethnicity.
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Historical linguistics
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Defined culture as that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
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E B Tyler (1871)
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Acquired while growing up in a group and learned from other members of the group, Broadly shared by members of that group or society, explains how societies or groups behave and think differently, Complete social and psychological development of people in the group
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Modern anthropologist's definitions of culture.
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mental and behavioral components fit together and influence individual elements. Cultures are systems and components of it are independant.
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Cultural integration
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beliefs about goals or ways of life or desires

Create or modify motivations

Provide standards that must be upheld

 

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Values
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a thing or action which represents something else

Arbritrary and conventional 

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