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anthropology - Answer-emerged in Europe and north America as an academic discipline devoted to the systematic observation and analysis of human variation and comparing of different species and people with different cultures applied anthropology - Answer-anthropological research commissioned to s...

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Anthropology Exam 1 Key Terms and
Quiz Questions with Correct Answers
anthropology - Answer-emerged in Europe and north America as an academic discipline
devoted to the systematic observation and analysis of human variation and comparing
of different species and people with different cultures

applied anthropology - Answer-anthropological research commissioned to serve an
organization's needs

archeology - Answer-study of past cultures by excavating sites where people lived
worked farmed or conducted some other activity

biological anthropology - Answer-the study of the biological and bicultural aspects of the
human species past and present along with those of our closest relatives the non
human primates

colonialism - Answer-the historical practice of more powerful countries claiming
possession of less powerful ones

comparative method - Answer-a research method that derives insights from careful
comparisons of aspects of two or more culture or societies

cultural anthropology - Answer-The study of the social lives of living communities.

cultural relativism - Answer-the moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold
judgement about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices

culture - Answer-the taken for granted notions rules moralities and behaviors within
social groups

diversity - Answer-the seer variety of ways of being human around the world

empirical - Answer-verifiable through observation rather than through logic or theory

ethics and ethical approaches in anthropology - Answer-moral questions about right and
wrong and standards of appropriate behavior

ethnocentrism - Answer-the assumption that ones own way of doing thinks is correct
while dismissing other peoples practice or views as wrong or ignorant

ethnographic method - Answer-a prolonged and and intense observation or a
participation of the community

,evolution - Answer-adaptive changes in population of organisms across generations

fieldwork - Answer-conducting research in non wester communities spending a year or
two observing social life

historical archaeologist - Answer-these people excavate sites where where written
historical documentation about the site already exists

holism - Answer-efforts to synthesize distinct approaches and findings into a single
comprehensive interpretation

Industrialization - Answer-a process where society became more technologically
advanced that led to anthropology

linguistic anthropology - Answer-the study of how people communicate with one another
through language and how language use shapes groups of membership and identity

natural selection - Answer-the process through which heritable rates become more or
less common in a population related to the reproductive success of organisms
interacting with their environments

practicing anthropology - Answer-anthropological work involving research as well as
involvement in the design implementation and management of some organization
process or product

qualitative methods - Answer-a research strategy producing an in-depth and detailed
description of social activities and beliefs

quantitative methods - Answer-a methodology that classifies features of a phenomenon,
counting or measuring them, and constructing mathematical and statistical models to
explain what is observed

salvage paradigm - Answer-the paradigm which held that is was important to observe
indigenous ways of life interview elders and assemble collections of objects made and
used by indigenous peoples

scientific method - Answer-the standard methodology of science the begins from
observable facts generates hypothesis form these facts and then tests these
hypotheses

theory - Answer-a tested an repeatedly supported hypothesis

Franz Boas - Answer-founder of american anthropology and holism

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

, EB tylor - Answer-founder of cultural anthropology

E.E. Evans-Pritchard - Answer-this man believed that anthropology should be grouped
in humanities and history not science

Renato Rosaldo - Answer-this man illustrates the POV that anthropology should not
state what you feel or be biased but the facts also studied head hunting in Filipino
society

cross cultural perspective - Answer-analyzing a human social phenomenon by
comparing that phenomena in different cultures

Cultural Approriation - Answer-the unilateral decision of one sisal group to take control
over the symbols practices or objects of another

cultural determinism - Answer-the idea that all human actions are the product of culture
which denies the influence of other factors like physical environment and human biology
on human behavior

customs - Answer-long-established norms that have a codified and lawlike aspect

Enculturation - Answer-the process of learning the social rules and cultural logic of a
society

fokway - Answer-the traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community of
people

functionalism - Answer-a perspective that assumes that cultural practices and beliefs
serve social purposes in any society

historical particularism - Answer-individual sociétés develop patricial cultural traits and
undergo unique process of change, culture traits diffuse from one culture to another

historic perspective - Answer-a perspective that aims to identify and understand the
whole that is the systematic connections between individual cultural beliefs and
practices rather than the individual parts

interpretive theory of culture - Answer-a theory that culture is embodies and transmitted
through symbols

more - Answer-refer to social norms that are widely observed and are considered to
have greater moral significance than others social taboos

Neoevolutionism - Answer-cultures evolve form simple to complex by harnessing nature
energy through technology and the influence of particular culture specific process

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