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ANTH 411 Key Concepts Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Key Concepts Anthropology - 4 Field Approach - correct answer •Biological or Physical - human origins, fossils •Archaeology - material culture remains •Linguistic - language, communication •Cultural - pat...

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ANTH 411 Key Concepts
Anthropology - 4 Field Approach - correct answer ✔•Biological or Physical -
human origins, fossils
•Archaeology - material culture remains
•Linguistic - language, communication
•Cultural - patterns shared by members of a social group


Culture - correct answer ✔The way of life of a people, continuously
reworked, shared


Ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔•One's own culture represents the best
way to do something
•One's own culture is superior to others


Ritual - correct answer ✔Day to day practices, give order and meaning to life


Cultural Evolutionism - correct answer ✔Belief that all the world's societies
can be fit into a grand evolutionary scheme, ranging from primitive to civilized


Cultural Relativism - correct answer ✔•All cultural systems are inherently
equal in value
•Each culture's aspects must be understood in its own terms


Cultural Determinism - correct answer ✔Social and cultural forces shape
one's position in society


Female Circumcision - 4 Types - correct answer ✔•Nicking

, •Clitoridectomy
•Excision
•Infibulations


Ethnography - correct answer ✔•The end result of fieldwork (traditionally, a
written work)
•Now includes: film, photography, audio recordings (info. from all aspects of
fieldwork)


Culture Shock - correct answer ✔While entering and exiting another culture


Qualitative vs. Quantitative Data - correct answer ✔•Qualitative: interviews,
stories, words, and narratives
•Quantitative: numbers and statistics


Key Informants - correct answer ✔•People who you spend the most time
with, provide info and aid to the anthropologist


British vs. American Anthropology - correct answer ✔•British: empirical and
objective methods (dependent on observation and "reality"), positivist - based
on facts
•American: belief that culture is a system of meanings and that it is constantly
negotiated, should be explored by gaining a true "native's point of view"


Interpretive Anthropology - correct answer ✔•Can't pretend that anthropology
isn't always interpreting
•Anthropology is subjective - never can be completely objective or empirical


Language - correct answer ✔A key system of symbols

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