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Anthropology 411 Final Exam UNH Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 Anthropology 411 Final Exam UNH anthropology - correct answer study of people, humankind, and culture holistic and comparative culture - correct answer a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, ar...

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Anthropology 411 Final Exam UNH
anthropology - correct answer ✔study of people, humankind, and culture
holistic and comparative


culture - correct answer ✔a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of
behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a
group of people
ways of life that set groups apart
continuously reworked and created and socially constructed


encultration - correct answer ✔gradual acquisition of the
characteristics/norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.


applied anthropology - correct answer ✔use of skills, knowledge, resources,
and experience toward some real world problem
"practical"


armchair anthropology - correct answer ✔not based on fieldwork
theories/descriptions based on explorers accounts w/ the "other"
men in armchairs would read about descriptions, not what they saw on their
own, and from that come up with descriptions


medical anthropology - correct answer ✔draws upon social, cultural,
biological, and linguistic anthro to better understand factors which influence
health and well being

,corporate anthropology - correct answer ✔applying theories to needs of
industrial firms


cultural evolutionism - correct answer ✔human cultural change can be
described as a Darwinian evolutionary process that is similar to biological
evolution


historical particularism - correct answer ✔society is a collective
representation of its unique historical past


ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔one's own culture represents the natural
way/best way of doing things and living life
"our way is the only way"
can't see other side of things


cultural relativism - correct answer ✔beliefs/practices of others are best
understood in light of particular culture in which they are found
all cultural systems are equal in value
each must be understood in its own terms
no culture is the same, but all are EQUAL


Cultural determinism - correct answer ✔history/culture shapes a person, not
biology


Nacirema - correct answer ✔-North American group
-highly developed market economy
-ceremonial and philosophy aspects are unique
-shrines are important, pray to them

, -have obsession w/ mouth
-temple for treating sick people
-intercourse is scheduled act, efforts are made to avoid pregnancy
(conception is very rare, if pregnant women hide it, they give birth alone with
NOBODY around)
-american spelled backwards, purpose is to show that human behavior is
arbitrary and what we do can seem random to other cultures


Charles Darwin - correct answer ✔created Social Darwinism: justified
hierarchal ranking of social classes w/in any society. Survival of the fittest!


Franz Boas - correct answer ✔-father of American anthro
-stressed importance of fieldwork
-first person to prove there was no biological difference between race
-can't rank/judge cultures based on biology
-came up with historical particularism and cultural determinism


Tanya Rodriguez - correct answer ✔did study on Spam
stressed the importance of observation


Fieldwork - correct answer ✔-longitudinal study
-intense, long term
-totally immerse yourself in culture to learn language, participate in things the
people of that culture do, dive in head first
-"going native"


participant observation - correct answer ✔-living among others
-learning language

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