Anthropology Test

Question 1

Define Physical Anthropology

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A branch of Anthropology that understands the physical and biological nature of human beings.

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Archeologist

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Studies human history and prehistory through the physical remains

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Palaeontologist

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Studies Fossils

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Primatologist

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Studies primates other than humans

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Ethnographer

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Studies and describes the culture of a particular society or group

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Ethnocentric views

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View their own cultures as central and normal and reject all other cultures as inferior and morally suspect

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Functionalism

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Theory that studies how culture and social institutions work together to maintain a society

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Structuralism

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Analyzes cultures as systems based on the relationships between their elements

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Cultural Materialism

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Analyzes how material conditions shape societies and cultural characteristics

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Cultural Relativism

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The ideal that cultures should not be judged by cultural values and beliefs and should not be compared

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Linguistics – Structural

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how sounds are put together to make meaning

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Linguistics - Socio

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how people use language within their culture to express status and context.

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Australopithecus Afarensis

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Name: Lucy’s species
Lived in Eastern Africa
Plant-based diet
Small Brain

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Homo Erectus

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Discovery Date: 1891
Lived: Northern, Eastern, and Southern Africa
Human-like body proportions (long legs, short arms)

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Homo Habilis

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Nickname: Handy Man
Discovery Date: 1960
Lived: Eastern and Southern Africa
Larger brain-case, smaller face and teeth

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Neanderthals

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Nickname: Neanderthal
Discovery Date: 1829
Lived: Europe and southwestern to central Asia
Our closest extinct human relative
Plant-based diet

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Homo Sapiens

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Modern Humans

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User Generated Community

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Group of people who actively participate in online conversations and communities through user-generated content

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User Generated Filtering

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Process or system where users contribute to the filtering, sorting, and moderation of content on a platform.

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User Generated Distribution

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The process of sharing content created by users or customers on a brand’s channels

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Gaming the System

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Manipulating or exploiting a system’s rules to gain an advantage over others

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Context collapse

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When people, information, and norms from different contexts blend together into one

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Cultural inversion

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Cultural innovation that prioritizes group identity over individualism

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Networked Individualism

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Describes how people are connecting with each other through personal networks instead of traditional social groups.

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Cyborg Anthro

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A discipline that studies the interaction between humanity and technology

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Kinship

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Blood families

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Culture

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The total system of ideas, values, behaviours, and attitudes of a society, commonly shared by most members of that society

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Primatology – diff./similarities with humans etc.

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Humans vs Apes - How similar they are

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Babies documentary - parental roles, child rearing cultures etc.

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How each baby was raised - Namibia, Mongolia, Japan, USA

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Michael Wesch

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How Youtube affected people - Professor of cultural anthropology

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Amber Case

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Goes over her research and her opinions on how technology is changing what it means to be human and how we interact with each other

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Jane Goodall

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Chimpanzee expert, discovered that chimpanzees make and use tools, eat meat, and have complex social behaviours and emotions, much like humans.

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Dian Fossey

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Studies mountain gorilla groups and advocates for them, Gorillas in the mist

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Margaret Mead

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Controversial, studied people in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, including Samoa

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Richard Lee

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research on hunter-gatherer societies, human rights, indginous peoples, medical anthro

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Charles Darwin

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Proposed that no two members of a species are exactly alike due to differences / variations caused by biological inheritance and adaptation to the environment. (theory of evolution)

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Marvin Harris

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Explains cultural phenomena through the lens of material conditions and practical necessities. He argued that many social customs, beliefs, and institutions could be understood as responses to environmental and economic factors.