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Anthropology Flashcards

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Social science

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Concerned with society and human behaviour

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Anthropology

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Study of human origins, physical, social and cultural development

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Sociology

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Study of human social behaviours, individual>group>society

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Psychology

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Study of the human mind, mental states and behaviour

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Physical anthro

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Evolution, origins, human uniqueness
Paleontology, primatology, human variation

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Culture

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Learned pattern of behaviour and shared values passed by socialization
Values, beliefs, norms, morals, laws, mannerisms

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Participant observation

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Observer takes part in study, becomes a participant

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Ethnology

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Study the differences and relationships between various people, cultures, races

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Patrilineal/matrilineal

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Family line traced by males/females

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Patriarchal/matriarchal

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Society lead by males/females, dominant sex

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Objective

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Factual, true

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Subjective

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Individual opinion, bias

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Reflexivity

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Being able to examine your own feelings, beliefs and reactions and how they might affect or bias you

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Ethnocentric

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Believing your own culture is superior

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Cultural Relativism

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You can’t compare two cultures bc they both have their own internal rules and you’re influenced by your own culture

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Functionalism

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Every belief, action or relationship in a culture functions for the needs of individuals
Stressed importance of interdependence to ensure long-term survival

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Charles Darwin

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Social Darwinism, natural selection (strongest survive)
Publicized theory of evolution

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Raymond Dart

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Discovered first evidence of Australopithecus, child’s teeth in South Africa, 1924

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Mary Leakey

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An almost complete skull of Australopithecus in Tanzania, 1959

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Louis Leakey

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Discovered first evidence of Homo Habilis, Tanzania, 1964

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Donald Johnson

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Discovered ‘Lucy’, most complete specimen of Australopithecus in Ethiopia, 1974

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Marvin Harris

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Developed Cultural Materialism theory (conditions and environment shape culture)

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Bronislaw Malinowski

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Rejected Cultural Evolutionism but unlike Boas he believed cultures could be measured and compared

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Jane Goodall

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Primatologist, studied chimpanzees, observed them using tools potentially changing the timeline. Mostly disregarded bc female.

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Dian Fossey

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Primatologists, studied gorillas, murdered

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Margaret Mead

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Participant observation to determine if adolescent stresses for girls were caused by society or biology

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Noam Chomsky

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Theory of universal grammar, all children are born with internal grammar rules

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Cultural Materialism

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Conditions within the environment influence the development of culture and ideologies
If smt isn’t valued it would disappear

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Feminist anthro

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Examine gender relationships in different cultures, compare male-dominated to female-dominated

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Post-Moderism

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Belief that it is impossible to have true knowledge of the world, everything is subjective, created by us.

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Australopithecus

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Raymond Dart
Mary Leakey
Donald Johnson
Stone tools, apes

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Homo Habilis

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Handy man, bipedalism
Louis Leakey
Partially in trees

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Homo Erectus

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Fire, hunting, cannibalism
Migration
Upright man

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Homo Neanderthalis

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Burying the dead, speech?
Germany

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Cromagnon

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Cave painting, bone ornaments
Highly developed culture, speech

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Homo Sapiens

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Wise human kind
Religion, agriculture, complex speech

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Bipedalism

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Walking upright

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