ANTH M02 Test 1 Study Guide
Anthropology - ANS-The study of humanity, from its evolutionary origins millions of
years ago to its current worldwide diversity.
Societies - ANS-Populations of people living in organized groups with social and
institutional expectations of behaviors.
Culture - ANS-The way of life of a group of people; The learned values, beliefs and
rules of conduct that are shared to some extent by the members of a society that govern
their behavior with one another.
Cultural anthropology - ANS-The study of cultural behavior, especially the comparative
study of living.
Ethnology - ANS-Aspect of cultural anthropology involved with building theories about
cultural behaviors and forms.
Ethnography - ANS-Aspect of cultural anthropology involved with observing and
documenting peoples' ways of life.
Archaeology - ANS-The study of past cultures, both historic cultures with written records
and prehistoric cultures that predate the invention of writing.
Linguistic anthropology - ANS-The study of language and communication and the
relationship between language and other aspects of culture and society.
Biological anthropology - ANS-The study of human origins and biological diversity.
Ethnocentrism - ANS-The widespread human tendency to perceive the ways of doing
things in one's own culture as normal and natural and that of others as strange, inferior,
and possibly even unnatural.
Cultural relativism - ANS-An approach in anthropology that stresses the importance of
analyzing cultures in their own terms rather than in terms of the culture of the
anthropologist.
Ethical relativism - ANS-The belief that all rights and wrongs are relative to time, place,
and culture, such that no moral judgments of behavior can be made.
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