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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/13/2011

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Anthropology
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the study of human cultural and biological differences through time and space
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four subfields
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sociocultural , archaeological , biological, linguistic
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archeaological
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uses studies to imagine what life was like in the past
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sociological
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the study of changes in social life and custom
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biological
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the examined evolotionary changes in physical form such as anatomy
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linguistic
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the study of language
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the power to naturalize
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culture naturalizes point of views on different matters
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a priori
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reasoning from theoritical deductions rather than observations and experiences aka prior prejudice
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Linneaus
Definition
1700s, developed the system on homo sepiens
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blumanbach
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(1781) races . caucasians, mongolians, malay, ethiopean, american
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hooton
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(1926) caucazoid , mongaloid , and negroid
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monogenesis
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all mankinds desents from adam and eve. the belief that those who born different from white are punished
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polygenesis
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the belief that white is the only true human kind and the rest are othr species
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craniometry
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study of skulls
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robert bennett bean
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measured and copared the anterior brain (genu) posterior brain (splenium)to prove te supriority of euro men over others
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paul brocca
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measures the foramen magum to prove the closer relation to apes that black poeple have . he changed his data to fit his preassumptions
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hypodescent
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mix children are given the inferior association
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assimilation
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you as indi incorporate yorself in another cult
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multiculturalism
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appreciating dif cults
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de jure
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law
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de facto
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practice
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apartheid
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law for segregation
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ethnocentrism
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tendency to measure other cultures in relation to one's own
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Nature v. nuture
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qualities v experiences
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hobbes
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inately good but society make them bad
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rousseau
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inately bad but society make them good
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extensive arg
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put less work into it
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itensive
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more work , smaller comm
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fallow
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plowed and left alone for a season or two
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intercropping
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more than one type of crop on one field
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domestication
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breeding animal
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foraging
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hunting and gathering
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