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ANT 254 Test Quiz With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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ANT 254 Test Quiz With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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ANT 254 Test/Quiz 1 2024-2025 WithComplete Solutions Latest Update
ideas, customs, skills, arts, etc. of a people or group, that are transferred,
communicated or passed along to succeeding generations; in a particular period
or civilization - Culture
a. Broad in Scope
b. historical/time-depth perception
c. holistic (species wide and within cultures)
d. cross-cultural perspective - basic characteristics of culture
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, Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, Physical - Four fields of anthropology
studies both specific contemporary human societies and underlying patterns of
human culture. Involves detail examinations of individual cultures (ethnography)
and analysis and interpretation of data to discern certain patterns.
Unique patterns: ethnographic fieldwork - Cultural Anthropology
requires long interviews and long term studies and is found in only cultural and
linguistic anthropology - Ethnographic fieldwork - participant observation:
The science of language, like basic elements of grammar or the study of the
structure, development, etc. of a particular language and its relationship to other
languages. - Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology has humanistic tendencies, perhaps easily seen in Archaeology with
its focus on both (pre)history and art forms that depend on the scientific method
(theories based in trial and error (hypotheses and testing) - Humanistic/social
scientific divide in anthropology's emphasis:
Ethnocentrism: Tendency to interpret native actions in terms of one's own
cultural norms.
Cultural relativism: Refers to the practice of interpreting other people's actions in
terms of their patterns. - Ethnocentrism/cultural relativism
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