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What is cultural anthropology? - Answer-• The study of similarities and variation in the beliefs and behaviors of members of different (living) human groups • Also called sociocultural anthropology or social anthropology What are unique features of anthropology? - Answer-1. Holistic 2. Co...

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Anthropology Exam 1 Study Guide
Questions and Answers
What is cultural anthropology? - Answer-• The study of similarities and variation in the
beliefs and behaviors of
members of different (living) human groups
• Also called sociocultural anthropology or social anthropology

What are unique features of anthropology? - Answer-1. Holistic
2. Comparative
3. Field-based
4. Evolution

Holism - Answer-•All aspects of human life intersect with one another
• They shape one another
• Multiple fields of anthropology

Comparison - Answer-• Similarities and differences
• Need to study a wide range of human societies if we want to make
any generalizations

Field-Based - Answer-• Anthropological research takes place in direct contact with:
• People (living or dead)
• Primates
• Sites and objects

Evolution - Answer-• Change over time
• Biological evolution
• Cultural evolution

What are the subfields of anthropology? - Answer-• Biological Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Cultural Anthropology
• Linguistic Anthropology

Anthropology - Answer-• Anthropos + logos
• "The study of human nature, human society, and the human past"

Anthropology is cross-disciplinary - Answer-• Social science
• Natural science
• Humanities

Biological Anthropology - Answer-• The study of humans as biological organisms
• Evolution

, • Contemporary variation
- primatology, palaeoanthropology, contemporary
variation

Archaeology - Answer-The study of the past involving the analysis of material remains
left
behind by earlier societies.

Linguistic Anthropology - Answer-The study of human languages
• Historical
• Cultural
• Biological contexts

Cultural Anthropology - Answer-The study of similarities and variation in the beliefs and
behaviors of
members of different (living) human groups
• Also called sociocultural anthropology or social anthropology

Ethnography - Answer-description of the behaviors of a group of people
(written or filmed)

Ethnology - Answer-comparative study of two or more such groups

Medical Anthropology - Answer-• Study of how health and illness are experienced and
understood in
different cultures
• What is a disease? How are they treated? What are the economics of
injury? What are the lived consequences of disability?

Applied Anthropology - Answer-Anthropology to solve cross-cultural problems.
Example:
• Improving health
• Forensics
• Cultural resource management ('rescue archaeology')
• Preserving indigenous languages
• Indigenous status

Human Terrain System Project - Answer--Cultural Anthropologists who seek to learn
about the community in hostile environments

Who were the first hominins? - Answer-Primates
• Bipedal
• Small-brained
• Evolved in Africa
- Split from apes somewhere between 9 and 4 mya

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