Chapter 1-intro

Question 1

What are the 4 main fields of anthropology?

Answer 1

Biological/physical anthropology
Archaeology
cultural anthropology
Linguistic anthropology

Question 2

What is the scientific method?

Answer 2

A process that involves the formulation of a problem, the collection of data, and the formukation and testing of a hypothesis

Question 3

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 3

A proposition intended to explain facts or phenomena

Question 4

What is the purpose of anthropology?

Answer 4

Seeks to understand universals, and difference between human populations of all time periods

Question 5

What is the “holistic approach?”

Answer 5

Is an approach that refers to many asects of a multifaceted system

Question 6

What is biological anthropology?

Answer 6

The study of the emergence of humansband their later evolutions

Question 7

What is cultural anthropology?

Answer 7

The study of how/why cultures in the oast or present are similar or different in what we do to the ways we think

Question 8

Whats the difference between an association and a theory?

Answer 8

Associations are based only on observation. Theories are more conplicayed because there are concepts or implications in theories that are not observable