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Stankowski anthropology 102 exam 14 types of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔biological, archaeology, linguistic, cultural
Horace Miner - correct answer ✔✔Wrote "body ritual of the Nacirema". Raises question how we can study different culture from outside and how to understand our culture from within.
Nacirema - correct answer ✔✔American spelled backward, argues no one objective viewpoint to assess cultures, and every culture should be interpreted from native viewpoint
cultural relativism - correct answer ✔✔Suspend our beliefs to learn about others, used to stop ethnocentrism
Laura Bohannan - correct answer ✔✔Author of Shakespeare in the Bush
Shakespeare in the Bush - correct answer ✔✔story told to bush people, but many terms are not understood (ghosts). (Bush people are not wrong for interpretation because of their culture.) Culture is not the same because everything is based on experience
Voyages of Discovery - correct answer ✔✔15th-18th century, Ferdinand Magellan and spice islands, Ponce de Leon and fountain of youth, Columbus and new world, encounters with natives show human similarities and differences
Ferdinand Magellan - correct answer ✔✔first European to cross Pacific Ocean, discovered the straight, dies in Philippines from natives.
Spice Islands - correct answer ✔✔discovered by Magellan during the first circumnavigation of world.
Armchair Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔anthropology without field work, cause of unilineal evolution, EB tylor and Lewis Morgan ethnology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them. (cultural anthropology)
7 characteristics of culture - correct answer ✔✔learned and acquired, necessary, adaptive, maladaptive, non-utilitarian, patterned, symbolic system
bronislaw malinowski - correct answer ✔✔father of anthropology, lived on trobriand islands, fieldwork to him should be in the field.
Malinowski fieldwork (5 steps) - correct answer ✔✔1. skeleton- group organization, charts, maps
2. flesh and blood- daily life of people (imponderabilia of daily life)
3. spirit- native viewpoint, (corpus inscriptionum) collection of statements
4. collect verbatim statements (termini technici)
5. enthnography- in depth analysis of people
participant observation - correct answer ✔✔a fieldwork method in which the cultural anthropologist lives with the people under study
"imponderabilia of daily life" - correct answer ✔✔Routine happenings
"real substance of social fabric"
Corpus Inscriptionum - correct answer ✔✔Collection of statements, narratives, folklore, magical formulae collected in native language
"Termini technici" - correct answer ✔✔verbatim statements to get at the spirit
ethnography - correct answer ✔✔the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
Degeneration Theory - correct answer ✔✔biblical cause for variation (tower of babel) entire species degenerated becoming sterile, weaker, or smaller
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