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Anthropology - Answer-The study of humans Archaeology - Answer-reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behavior through analysis of material remains Artifacts - Answer-Something created by and used humans. Ecofacts - Answer-Something naturally made, used by humans. Linguistic...

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Anthropology Midterm Exam Questions
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Anthropology - Answer-The study of humans

Archaeology - Answer-reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behavior
through analysis of material remains

Artifacts - Answer-Something created by and used humans.

Ecofacts - Answer-Something naturally made, used by humans.

Linguistic Anthropology - Answer-"Studies language in its social and cultural context

Kanzi - Answer-male bonobo featured in several studies on ape language

Biological/Physical Anthropology - Answer-The study of human biological diversity
across time and space

Charles Darwin - Answer-English natural scientist who formulated theory of evolution by
natural selection (1809-1882).

Cultural Anthropology - Answer-The study of human society and culture, analyzes social
and cultural similarities and differences

Culture - Answer-The learned shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior
and interpret experience

Universality - Answer-the ability to be applied to everyone in every situation.

Generality - Answer-culture pattern or trait that exists in some but not all societies

Particularity - Answer-distinctive or unique culture trait, pattern, or integration

5 Themes of Cultural Anthropology - Answer-1. Comparative perspective
2. Holistic perspective
3. Systems and processes
4. Emic/etic perspectives
5. Case study

Colonialism - Answer-The often forceful control or governing influence of a nation over a
dependent country, territory or people

, Armchair anthropologists - Answer-Early anthropologists who gathered data from
travelogues and books rather than from their own direct research

Bronislaw Malinowski - Answer-Father of ethnography, introduced participant obervation
(1884-1942)

Fieldwork - Answer-Method of anthropology in which the anthropologist lives with the
people he is studying.

Participant Observation - Answer-observing of behavior as well as participating;
combining the emic/etic perspectives.

Ethnocentrism - Answer-belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group

Cultural Relativism - Answer-the value of any social practice or belief is relative to the
society in which it is practiced

Cultural Evolutionism/Stagism - Answer-cultures evolve, in stages, all cultures move
through these stages at different times

Lewis Henry Morgan - Answer-societies evolve through stages of savagery, barbarism,
and civilization

Franz Boas - Answer-father of modern American anthropology; argued for cultural
relativism and historical particularism

Historical Particularism - Answer-All societies or cultures have their own unique history,
cannot be reduced to a category in some universalist scheme of development (Eriksen)

Margaret Mead - Answer-Noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior
in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)

Ethnography - Answer-Discovering and describing a particular culture (Spradley).

Naïve realism - Answer-All people define the real world of objects, events, and living
creatures the same way (Spradley).

Explicit culture - Answer-cultural knowledge you can talk about; learned mostly by
hearing it from the other; parents, teachers, etc

Tacit culture - Answer-the shared knowledge of which people usually are unaware and
do not communicate verbally

Universals - Answer-characteristics that can be observed in every human culture and
society such as ethic, gestures, and superstitions

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