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Anthropology 102 Exam 1 Outline Study Guide fully solved
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Anthropology 102 Exam 1 Outline Study Guideacculturation - correct answer ✔✔exchange of cultural features when groups come into continuous first-
hand contact. ex) going to Arab and Muslims putting a head scarf around your head.
core values - correct answer ✔✔key, basic, central values; core values in a certain culture set them apart from another culture. For example, here in America "hard work" is important and valued as patriotic.
hominids versus hominins - correct answer ✔✔hominids fossil and living humans, chimps and gorillas hominins organisms leading humans but not humans, or gorillas.
biological similarities between apes and humans - correct answer ✔✔grasping, depth perception, learning ability based on large brain, parent investment and manual dexterity.
cultural differences between apes and humans - correct answer ✔✔cooperation and sharing maximized production in reproduction than them
exogamy and kinship systems. exogamy- marriage outside ones kin group
cultural similarities between apes and humans - correct answer ✔✔learn from experience and change behavior, tools, capacity to aim and throw, and hunting.
psychic unity - correct answer ✔✔All humans have equal capacity for culture, even though individuals within a group vary in the extent to which they understand, detect, and respond to cultural norms.
cultural universals, generalities, and particularities - correct answer ✔✔universals found in every culture
generalities common in several but not all (widespread but not universal) particularities features unique to certain traditions ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔✔tendency to view ones own culture as superior and judge another culture
cultural relativism - correct answer ✔✔the notion that cultures should be analyzed with reference to their own histories and values.
globalization - correct answer ✔✔international, national, and sub cultures are increasing interlinked. ex soccer/football and the example in class with the rebel flag sold by a store in japan
forces of globalization - correct answer ✔✔international commerce and finance, travel and tourism, transnational migration, and mass media.
anthropology (definition) - correct answer ✔✔is the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. It is a broad view that examines ancient and modern, complex and simple societies.
holism - correct answer ✔✔study of whole of human condition; past, present, and future; biology, society, language, culture
society versus culture - correct answer ✔✔society is a organized life in groups; shared with other animals where as culture is traditions and customs transmitted through learning, which guide the beliefs and behaviors of people exposed to them.
cultural and genetic adaption - correct answer ✔✔adapting due to culuture vs adapting due to dna
long-term and short-term adaption - correct answer ✔✔temporary changes that happen because of a temporary change in the environment permanent changes, changes dna
four sub-fields - correct answer ✔✔cultural (sociocultural), archaeological, biological and linguistic.
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