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Armchair Anthropology - Answer-an early and discredited method of anthropological research that did not involve direct contact with the people studied Cultural Determinism - Answer-the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. This s...

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Cultural Anthropology EXAM 1- Culture
Concept, Doing Fieldwork, Language,
Subsistence, Economics Questions and
Answers
Armchair Anthropology - Answer-an early and discredited method of anthropological
research that did not involve direct contact with the people studied

Cultural Determinism - Answer-the belief that the culture in which we are raised
determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. This supports the theory that
environmental influences dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits.

Cultural Evolutionism - Answer-The early ethnological or anthropological position or
theory that Culture started at some moment in the past and evolved from its "primitive"
beginnings through a series of stages to achieve its "higher" or more modern form.

Cultural Relativism - Answer-the idea that we should seek to understand another
person's beliefs and behav- iors from the perspective of their own culture and not our
own.

Enculturation - Answer-The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted
across generations

Ethnocentrism - Answer-evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions
originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture - the tendency to view
one's own culture as most important and correct and as the
stick by which to measure all other cultures.

Functionalism - Answer-an approach to anthropology developed in British anthropology
that emphasized the way that parts of a society work together to support the functioning
of the whole.

Going Native - Answer-becoming fully integrated into a cultural group through acts such
as taking a leader- ship position, assuming key roles in society, entering into marriage,
or other behaviors that incorpo- rate an anthropologist into the society he or she is
studying.

Holism - Answer-The anthropological commitment to consider the full scope of human
life, including culture, biology, history, and language, across space and time.-taking a
broad view of the historical, environmental, and cultural foundations of behavior.

, Kinship - Answer-blood relationship - blood ties, common ancestry, and social
relationships that form families within human
groups.

Participant Observation - Answer-a type of observation in which the anthropologist
observes while participating in the same activities in which her informants are engaged.

Salvage Anthropology - Answer-activities such as gathering artifacts, or recording
cultural rituals with the belief that a culture is about to disappear

Structuralism - Answer-an approach to anthropology that focuses on the ways in which
the customs or social institutions in a culture contribute to the organization of society
and the maintenance of social order.

The Other - Answer-a term that has been used to describe people whose customs,
beliefs, or behaviors are "different" from one's own

Contested Identity - Answer-a dispute within a group about the collective identity or
identities of the group

Deductive - Answer-reasoning from the general to the specific; the inverse of inductive
reasoning. Deductive research is more common in the natural sciences than in
anthropology. In a deductive approach, the researcher creates a hypothesis and then
designs a study to prove or disprove the hypothesis. The results of deductive research
can be generalizable to other settings.

Diaspora - Answer-the scattering of a group of people who have left their original
homeland and now live in various locations. Examples of people living in the diaspora
are Salvadoran immigrants in the United States and Europe, Somalian refugees in
various countries, and Jewish people living around the world.

Emic - Answer-a description of the studied culture from the perspective of a member of
the culture or INSIDER.

Ethnography - Answer-the in-depth study of the everyday practices and lives of a
people.

Etic - Answer-a description of the studied culture from the perspective of an observer or
OUTSIDER.

Indigenous - Answer-people who have continually lived in a particular location for a long
period of time (prior to the arrival of others) or who have historical ties to a location and
who are culturally distinct from the dominant population surrounding them. Other terms
used to refer to indigenous people are aboriginal, native, original, first nation, and first
people. Some examples of indigenous people are Native Americans of North America,
Australian Aborigines, and the Berber (or Amazigh) of North Africa.

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