ANTH 101 Final Exam Study Guide With Questions And 100% SURE ANSWERS
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Anthropology The study of human nature, human society and human past, a study of culture.
Characteristics of Anthropology Holistic, Comprehensive, Field-based, Evolutionary
Holism All aspects of human life intersect with one another in complex ways
Consideration of similarities and differences in as wide a range of human societies as possible in
Comparative
order to generalize about human nature, society & past
Field-Based Data collection occurs in direct contact with people, sites, or animals studied
Placing observations about human nature, society & past in a temporal framework that takes into
Evolutionary
consideration change over time
concerns change over time in beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that shape human
Cultural Evolution
development & social life
Culture Set of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society
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, looks at human beings as biological organisms and tries to discover what characteristics make
Biological Anthropology them different from other organisms and what characteristics they share; different from non-
anthropologists because is holistic, comparative and evolutionary
Primatology :the study of nonhuman primates, the closest living relatives of human beings
Paleoanthropology the search for fossilized remains of humanity's earliest ancestors
shows how variation in the beliefs and behaviors of members of different humans groups is
Cultural Anthropology shaped by sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a
society—that is, by culture
extended period of close involvement with the people in whose language or way of life
Intensive Fieldwork
anthropologists are interested, during which anthropologists collect most of their data
people in particular culture who work with anthropologists and provide them with insights about
Informants
their way of life)
Ethnology the comparative study of two or more cultures
Ethnography A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork.
Study of language as a form of symbolic communication and as a major carrier of important
Linguistic Anthropology
cultural information
Cultural anthropology of the human past involving the analysis of material remains left behind by
Archaeology
earlier societies
Language system of arbitrary vocal symbols used to encode one's experience of the world and of others
Prehistory period of time before written language
Artifacts portable objects modified by human beings
Specialists who use information gathered from the other anthropological specialties to solve
Applied Anthropology
practical cross-cultural problems
Critical medical anthropology links questions of human health and illness in local settings to social, economic, and political
processes operating on a national or global scale
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