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Anthropology - Answer-the study of humankind, of ancient and contemporary people and their ways of living. knowledge about or reason about humans. Four areas of Anthropology - Answer-Sociocultural anthro, bio/physical anthro, archaeology, linguistics. Social Anthropology - Answer-Whole of hum...

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Anthropology - Answer-the study of humankind, of ancient and contemporary people
and their ways of living. knowledge about or reason about humans.

Four areas of Anthropology - Answer-Sociocultural anthro, bio/physical anthro,
archaeology, linguistics.

Social Anthropology - Answer-Whole of human society as area of interest, and tried to
understand ways in which human lives are unique, but also familiar.
-how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, create meaning.
-race, sexuality, class, gender, nationality
-emphasis on participant observation
-how local knowledge put to work in practical and philosophical problems

Participant-observation/fieldwork - Answer-living among the people whose culture they
are studying, observing them and participating in their lives as much as they can
- generally accepted to stay long enough to be considered more or less natural
-can take role of clown or expert
-urban more discontinuous than village fieldwork
-time intensive

Strength of knowledge in fieldwork - Answer--mastery of both languages
-tools of analysis

cultural relativism - Answer-a theory that cultural codes of one group of people are not
more moral than those of another
-societies are qualitatively different, thus, scientifically absurd to compare
-does not in itself contain moral principle, thus, cannot be opposite of enthnocentrism
-probably impossible in practice

culture - Answer--abilities, notions, forms persons have acquired as members of a
society
-system of knowledge variably shared by members of a given society.
-never static or bounded
-functions as synthesis of stability and change
-abstract notion, not discreet process
-internally diverse
-acquired, cognitive and symbolic aspects of existence

society - Answer-group of people united by social relations.
-multiple cultural groups within single societal system
-patterns of interaction and power relationships

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