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WVU SOCA 105 Final Complete Answers What is culture? ️Culture is defined as ideas and behaviors that are learned and transmitted. -learned, socially acquired traditions of thought and behavior found in human societies. What is culture relativism? ️Studying another culture from its point of view without imposing our own cultural values. What is "context" in Archaeology and why is it so important? ️Context is a very, very important concept in archaeology. Unfortunately, it is als...

What is culture? - ANSWERthe shared & learned beliefs of a group of people What is cultural relativism? - ANSWERthe practice of judging a culture by its own standards What is context? - ANSWERexplaining the order of things & how they are arranged around each other What is ethnocentrism? - ANSWERThe belief that our own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures & it should be the only one What is participant observation? - ANSWERParticipating in a given society but a...

Culture (Earliest Evidences) - Answer-1. Learned behaviors, beliefs, characteristics of a particular society or population. 2. Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs. 3. beginning of religious thought, storytelling, creating science/art/music/poetry/song/speech 4. culture rooted in biology, general intelligence/size of neocortex 4 modules of theory of mind - Answer-1. Social: Understand behavior 2. Physics: Understand motion/action/reaction 3. Linguistics: Speak 4. Natur...

Many disciplines are involved in the study of humanity. What makes anthropology unique from other disciplines that study humans? Correct Answer Anthropology argues that the best understanding of the human condition comes from a global, comparative, and holistic perspective. A specialist from which of the four subfields of anthropology would be most likely to study ritual and kinship among people in contemporary societies? Correct Answer Cultural anthropology Archaeology can best be defined...

Anthropology - Answer-the study of the human condition or species, its evolution through time, its variations over time and space Two things Anthropology strives to do - Answer-1. Make the Familiar Strange 2. Make the Strange Familiar Kottak Anthropology - Answer-organized life in groups; study of human species and its immediate ancestors 4 Fields of Anthropology - Answer-1. Cultural 2. Archaeological 3. Biological 4. Linguistic Cultural Anthropology - Answer-culture being soci...

Culture (Earliest Evidences) - 1. Learned behaviors, beliefs, characteristics of a particular society or population. 2. Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs. 3. beginning of religious thought, storytelling, creating science/art/music/poetry/song/speech 4. culture rooted in biology, general intelligence/size of neocortex 4 modules of theory of mind - 1. Social: Understand behavior 2. Physics: Understand motion/action/reaction 3. Linguistics: Speak 4. Natural History: ...

Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity, 18e (Kottak) Chapter 1 What is Anthropology? 1) What is anthropology? A) the art of ethnography B) the study of long-term physiological adaptation C) the study of the stages of social evolution D) the humanistic investigation of myths in nonindustrial societies E) the study of humans around the world and through time Answer: E Topic: Defining anthropology Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holist...

geography - "Earth-Writing" What are 3 things geographers write about? - People, Places and Patterns. region - a collection of places or a sizable area with common characteristics 3 Characteristics of Regions - Has a location Has a boundary Can be measured formal region - areas of the earth with a coherent unifying characteristic functional region - type of region defined by the networks and connects between the parts of the region vernacular region - regions that are perceived by loc...

TEST BANK for Essentials of Physical Anthropology 10th Edition by Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, Wenda Trevathan And Eric Bartelink. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter Outline I. Introduction A. Hominins are members of an evolutionary lineage which includes our own species, Homo sapiens, and all extinct bipedal relatives. 1. The 3.7 million year-old footprints at the ancient savanna site of Laetoli, as well as numerous fossil discoveries in Africa, are clear evidence ...

Anthropology Chapter 1 (2023/2024) Rated A+ Anthropology The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. Holistic Encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language and culture. Culture Traditions and customs transmitted through learning. General anthropology Anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology. Food production An economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication. Biocultural Combining biological...