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Anth 102 Exam #1Horace Miner - correct answer ✔✔author of "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema," an article about a "magic-ridden people" living in North America.
Nacirema - correct answer ✔✔A term anthropologists and sociologists have used to examine aspects of the behavior and society of American people
work to combat ethnocentrism to force American's to view their culture as we view others'
Cultural relativism - correct answer ✔✔ability to not judge a culture based on our own standards; understand a culture in its OWN CONTEXT
Laura Bohannan - correct answer ✔✔Author of Shakespeare in the Bush
Shakespeare in the Bush - correct answer ✔✔Laura Bohannan in Nigeria - nuances of language make "universal" truths harder to convey directly
"Voyages of Discovery" - correct answer ✔✔first of five developments of the anthropological perspective; the Europeans quest for new land and resources
Magellan, Ponce de Leon, Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan - correct answer ✔✔Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-
1522 that was the first to sail around the world
searching for spice islands
Armchair anthropology - correct answer ✔✔an early and discredited method of anthropological research that did not involve direct contact with the people studied ethnology - correct answer ✔✔branch of anthropology dealing with human races, their origin, distribution, culture, etc.
7 characteristics of culture - correct answer ✔✔learned and acquired
necessary adaptive, design for living
maladaptive
non-utilitarian
patterned
symbolic system
Bronislaw Malinowski and fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔Polish anthropologist, invented practice of extended ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation; spent most of WWI in the Trobriand islands of the S. Pacific and conducted a holistic field study of the Trobriand culture; known as the father of ethnography and fieldwork
participant observation - correct answer ✔✔a key anthropological research strategy involving both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being studied
"deep hanging out"
"imponderabilia of daily life" - correct answer ✔✔Routine happenings
minute observations of daily life
"corpus inscriptionum" - correct answer ✔✔Collection of statements, narratives, folklore, magical formulae collected in native language
"termini technici" - correct answer ✔✔(technical terms) part of Malinowski's fieldwork process- verbatim statements to get at the spirits
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