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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
06/03/2014

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Term
Anthropology
Definition
-Study of human being from beginning to present.
-Explores the life ways of people.
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Subsistence
Definition
How people feed themselves.
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Food
Definition
What they eat and eating rules.
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Shelter/Housing
Definition
How they protect themselves from the elements.
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Religion
Definition
How they give meaning to their lives and the supernatural belief system.
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Time and Space
Definition
This is what you do with time and how you deal with space.
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Organization of Community
Definition
-Kinship
-Leadership
-Government
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Communications
Definition
-Language
-Body Language
-Dance
-Music
-Theatre
-Visual Arts
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Energy Exchange w/ the Environment
Definition
Adaption to the environment.
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Clothing
Definition
What they wear.
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T or F
Change is in any and all parts of the culture.
Definition
True
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How Culture Changes
Definition
-It is in our heads...What and how we think.
-How we behave and what we believe.
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Culture
Definition
Learned behaviors and symbols that allow ppl to live in groups including human adaption and ppl giving meaning to lives.
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Four Sub-Disciplines of Anthro
Definition
-Cultural: culture across time
-Linguistic: study of language and relationship to culture
-Archeology: reconstruction of past cultures based on material culture (ex. fabric, tools, etc.)
-Biological: Humans from biological perspective (ex. nutrition, otology, primatology)
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Wild Boy of Averyon
Definition
•1799 he was found but escaped; he was found a second time. Captured might be a better word
•Shown in Paris
•Human but no humanity
•Sent to School for the deaf to be studied
•Had no language, no development of his senses, no ability to focus attention. He comforted himself by rocking
•Statue in San Seim, France
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Characteristics of ALL Cultures
Definition
-Consists of learning behaviors
-Uses language and symbols
-Patterned and integrated (has to be logical)
-Shared by members of the group
-Change
-Adaptive
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Culture Is...
Definition
-Learned while growing up in particular society
-Widely shared
-Profoundly affects the thoughts of the group
-Explains/is the source of differences b/w groups of ppl
-Socially learned
-Patterns of behavior (Not ind. behavior but regularities are bigger than ones behavior [ex. school, weddings])
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Human Adaption: Culture
Definition
Food: tools, farming, domestication of plants and animals
Shelter: use of materials found in enviro. to make shelter or make natural formations such as caves.
Trial and Error
Term
T or F?
Adaptions are NOT taught to succeeding generations.
Definition
False.
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Culture Change can be Caused By:
Definition
-Internal events
-External events
-Disease/Epidemics
-Climate change
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Traditional cultures change slowly or rapidly?
Definition
Slowly.
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Modern cultures change slowly or rapidly?
Definition
Rapidly.
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Innovation
Definition
-New object, way of thinking, way of behaving.
-Involves human ingenuity and creativity
-Not all innovations are positive (telephones and cars)
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T or F?
Innovation can only be created w/ ppl of that culture group.
Definition
True.
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Diffusion
Definition
The spread of a cultural element from one culture to another.
(If item is proved useful its adopted)
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Transculturation
Definition
Process of accepting the diffused concept or idea by adopting.
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Norms
Definition
Shared ideas or rules about how people OUGHT to behave in specific situations and how ppl SHOULD act towards each other.
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Norms Imply:
Definition
-Widespread agreement about standards of behavior
-Ppl will judge behavior according to the norm
-Dont follow them = negative reactions
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How can norms be constraining?
Definition
-Dress up for an occasion
-Gift giving
-Family obligation
-Tattoos
-Party
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Enculturation
Definition
We learn cultural norms as we grow.
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Values: American Dream
Definition
-If we work hard we get success
-Responsible for own destiny
-Assumes level of playing field
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How are values essential to life?
Definition
-Freedom of speech
-Liberty
-Pursuit of happiness
-Religious Freedom
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Subculture
Definition
Group w/in larger culture that shares different norms and values than those of dominate society. (ex. rappers, hippies, neo natzis, amish, etc)
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
Belief that YOUR culture and life ways are natural and superior to all other way .
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Race
Definition
Does not biologically exist.
Term
T or F?
Humans do NOT belong to one single race.
Definition
False.
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Traits that Define Race:
Definition
-Skin color
-Eye color
-Height
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Racism
Definition
Belief that there are ppl less than you b/c of genetics.
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Racialism (Systematic Racism)
Definition
Diff. between races are biologically fixed w/ diff. moral, intellectual, and physical characteristics.
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Franz Boaz
Definition
Believed in biopsychological equality .
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Biopsychological Equality
Definition
All humans have an equal capacity for culture.
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Cultural Relativism
Definition
-Franz Boaz
-Ppl life ways, values, etc. must be understood in terms of that culture
-Anthro. must not judge a culture until they understand logic of that culture first
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Emic
Definition
POV of the insider.
-Trying to understand a culture as if you were born into it. Understand how to think and act like a native.
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Etic
Definition
POV of outsider.
-Looking at a society in terms of concepts, categories, and rules from outsiders perspective
-Often not agreed with by culture
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When did anthropology become legit?
Definition
Nineteenth century (1800s) by europeans and americans.
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Travel brought ppl such as:
Definition
-Missionaries
-Explorers
-Soldiers
-Govt. officials
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Armchair Anthropologist
Definition
Anthro. stayed at home and interviewed untrained observers about experiences w/ inhabitants of places around the world.
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Stages of Evolution
Definition
-Lower, middle, upper savagery
-Lower, middle, upper barbarism
-Civilized
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