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chapter 1 In other words, cultures can only be understood relative to the _____(1)______ , _____(2)______ , and _____(3)_______ context in which they developed - (1) historical (2) ecological (3) social What is an armchair anthropologist? - gathering data from travelogues and books rather than...

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GLST 290 Midterm
chapter 1



In other words, cultures can only be understood relative to the _____(1)______ , _____(2)______ , and
_____(3)_______ context in which they developed - (1) historical

(2) ecological

(3) social



What is an armchair anthropologist? - gathering data from travelogues and books rather than own
direct research

- explain why groups were so different from one another



what is definition of cultural anthropology? - the truth is that cultural anthropology is the
description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures.



what are the 4 subfield of anthropology? - archaeology

cultural/social

physical/biological

linguistics



what is physical and biological anthropology? - involves the study of human anatomy, nonhuman
primates, and human origins



What is linguistic anthropology? - the study of human languages



What is archeology anthropology? - the study of material artifacts to understand a peoples
culture or society

,what is the primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologist is__________. -
ethnography



what is ethnography? - a type of research in which individuals are observed in their natural
settings



"because cultural anthropology draws together ___(1)_____, ____(2)___,
___(3)______,____(4)_____,_____(5)_____, and ___(6)___ to understand people's social and cultural
lives, it overlaps with several disciplines, but none more than _____(7)______. - (1) history

(2) economics

(3) family

(4) politics

(5) religion

(6) psycology

(7) sociology *know



who was Margaret Mead? - (1901-1978)

- sexuality

- Coming of Age in Samoa



who was Franz Boas? - Father of American Anthropology

- theory of relativism

- culture is invaluable

- Race, Language, and Culture



who was Clifford Geertz? - - symbolism



who is Ruth Benedict? -

, "Later missionary anthropologists and linguists made significant contributions to the discipline from
work that flowed directly from their ______(1)_______ work in Bible translation and evangelism, even
establishing scholarly journals such as ______(2)______ and ______(3)______ (formerly known as
Practical Anthropology) with the express purpose of bringing together anthropology and missiology" -
(1) Christian

(2) Anthropos

(3) Missionology



chapter 2 -



"The ethnic fair assumptions about cultures as _____(1)____ bounded and _____(2)______
homogenous entities simply didn't with stand scrutiny" - (1) neatly

(2) highly



"These first anthropologists are now often called ___________ ___________." - armchair
anthropologist



who advanced biological theories of evolution? - Charles Darwin

"the truth is that cultural anthropology is the ____(1)______, interpretation, and _____(2)_____ of
similarities and differences in human cultures." - (1)description

(2)analysis



other scholars assume all societies moved from _________ to ________ forms in progressive
evolutionary stages. - simple to complex



anthropologist did not talk about different ______(1)_______ only the differences in Culture with a
capital . in this view all cultural development followed a ____(2)____ path, or line from simple to
complex. - (1) cultures

(2) single



the theory of unilinear cultural evolution supports "cultural superiority the idea that people of one
culture are more ___(1)________, ___(2)______, _____(3)_____, or ___(4)_____ than another and

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