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WVU ANTH105 EXAM 1Anthropology - ✅✅-the study of humans around the world and through time
The "Other" - ✅✅-a person defined as different
Scientific Racism - ✅✅-attempts to use scientific methods and theories to support
beliefs in the inferiority or the superiority of what are held to be the biological races of
the human species
✅✅-study of the skull (Samuel Morton)
craniology -
The Noble Savage - ✅✅-small scale or early human societies, more humane than
the "modern" Europe
Evolution - ✅✅-transformation of species; descent with modification
biological evolution - ✅✅-the study of human biological variation through time and
as it exists today
Social/Cultural Evolution - ✅✅ -- the study of human society and culture
- analyzes, interprets and explains social/cultural similarities and differences
savagery, barbarism, civilization - ✅✅-the three stages of social/cultural evolution
Ethnical Periods - ✅✅ -From "Ancient Society" a breakdown of what separates
different types of society. (Lewis Henry Morgan)
✅✅-traditions and customs transmitted through learning
Culture -
Armchair Anthropologists - ✅✅-people who never went to the field but relied on
others for their ethnographic data
Psychic Unity of Mankind - ✅✅-the belief that societies share certain ways of
thinking
Field Anthropologists - ✅✅-anthropologists who focus on data collection in its
original context
The Professionalization of Anthropology - ✅✅-maintaining a broad view on human
condition
Antiquarianism - ✅✅-the study of old and rare objects and their history
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