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UNH ANTH 411 Final Question and answers correctly solved 2024/2025 UNH ANTH 411 Final Anthropology - correct answer Study of the origins and development of people and their societies Culture - correct answer the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large grou...

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UNH ANTH 411 Final
Anthropology - correct answer ✔Study of the origins and development of
people and their societies


Culture - correct answer ✔the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and
traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one
generation to the next


Characteristics of culture - correct answer ✔1. Culture is shared
2. Culture is learned
3. Culture is taken for granted
4. Culture is symbolic
5. Culture varies across time and place


Enculturation - correct answer ✔The social process by which culture is
learned and transmitted across generations


Subcultures - correct answer ✔values and norms distinct from those of the
majority, held by a group within a wider society


E.B. Tylor - correct answer ✔1st anthropologist to study religion. proposed 3
stages of religion. animism > polytheism > monotheism


Ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔evaluation of other cultures according to
preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.


Cultural Relativism - correct answer ✔not judging a culture but trying to
understand it on its own terms

,Armchair anthropology - correct answer ✔Anthropology through the study of
secondhand reports from people such as travelers and missionaries.


Cultural Evolutionism - correct answer ✔a theory popular in nineteenth
century anthropology suggesting that societies evolved through stages from
simple to advanced. This theory was later shown to be incorrect.


Unilineal Cultural Evolution - correct answer ✔the theory proposed by 19th
century anthropologists that all cultures naturally evolve through the same
sequence of stages from simple to complex


Historical particularism - correct answer ✔The idea, attributed to Franz Boas,
that cultures develop in specific ways because of their unique histories.


Cultural determinism - correct answer ✔the idea that all human actions are
the product of culture, which denies the influence of other factors like physical
environment and human biology on human behavior


Cultural relativism - correct answer ✔not judging a culture but trying to
understand it on its own terms


Nacirema - correct answer ✔A term anthropologists and sociologists have
used to examine aspects of the behavior and society of American people


Emic vs. etic perspective - correct answer ✔try to understand cultures as a
whole


Globalization (advantages/disadvantages) - correct answer ✔

, Glocalization - correct answer ✔the practice of conducting business
according to both local and global considerations.


Syncretism - correct answer ✔The unification or blending of opposing
people, ideas, or practices, frequently in the realm of religion. For example,
when Christianity was adopted by people in a new land, they often incorporate
it into their existing culture and traditions.


Hybridity - correct answer ✔the fact that cultures are neither wholly isolated
nor entirely distinct but instead constantly borrow from one another


Cultural Assimilation - correct answer ✔the process by which racial or ethnic
groups are absorbed into the dominant group by adopting the dominant
group's culture


Pushes vs. Pulls (why do people move?) - correct answer ✔


Internally displaced People - correct answer ✔As for a refugee, people who
are forced to leave their home, but in this case they remain in the same
country


Refugees vs. Immigrant - correct answer ✔


Charles Darwin - correct answer ✔English naturalist. He studied the plants
and animals of South America and the Pacific islands, and in his book On the
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) set forth his theory of
evolution.

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