ANTH 101 Final Exam With Questions And 100% ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
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Sets of learned behavior and ideas that human being acquire as members of society together
Culture
with the material artifacts and structures that create and use
Cultures Used to refer to particular, learned ways of life belonging to specific groups of human beings
Transmission Copying behavior on the instruction
Memory traditions cannot develop unless the new behavior is remembered
Reiteration The ability to reproduce or imitate behavior or information that has been learned
Innovation The ability to invent new behaviors
Selection The ability to select which innovations to keep and which discard
Things we learn but are never explicitly taught, but rather absorb in the course of daily practical
Habitus
living
A characteristic of the anthropological perspective that requires to place their observations
Evolution about human nature, human society or the human past in a temporal framework that takes into
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When organisms actively perturb the environment in ways that modify the selection pressures
Niche construction
experienced by subsequent generations of organisms
A human population category whose boundaries allegedly correspond to distinct sets of
Race
biological attributes
The systematic oppression of one or more socially defined "races" by another socially defined
Racism
"race" that is justified in terms of the supposed inherent biological inferiority of those they rule.
A system of social identities negotiated situationally along a continuum of skin colors between
Colorism
white and black
The opinion that one's own way of life is natural or correct and, indeed, the only true way of being
Ethnocentrism
fully human
Understanding another culture in its own terms sympathetically rough so that the culture appears
Cultural Relativism
to be a coherent and meaningful design for living
-Something that stands for something else
Symbols
-A mode of signification in which the sign bears no intrinsic connection to that which it represents
Myths Stories that recount how various aspects of the world came to be the way they are.
Dualism The philosophical view that reality consists of two equal and irreducible forces, i.e. body and soul
-A characteristic of the anthropological perspective describes at the highest and most inclusive
Holism level, how anthropology tried to integrate all that is known about human beings and their
activities.
Philosophical view that are simple force (or a few simple forces) causes ( or determines) complex
Determinism
events
The philosophical view that the material activities of put physical bodies in the material world
Materialism
constitute the essence of human nature
The philosophical view that ideas - or the mind that produces such ideas - constitute the essence
Idealism
of human nature
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