Chap1 & 2 Flashcards
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Anthropology
The study of the human species and it’s immediate ancestors
Holistic
Encompassing past present and future biology society language and culture
Culture
Traditions and customs transmitted through learning
Food production
And economy based on plant cultivation and or animal domestication
General anthropology
Anthropology as a whole cultural archaeology cool biological and linguistic anthropology
Biocultural
Combining biological and cultural approach is to a given problem
Ethnography
Provides an account of a particular group community society or culture
What does an ethnographer do
Gather data that here she organizes describes analyze and interpret to build and present that account which may be in the form of a book article or film
Cultural anthropology
The comparative cross culture study of human society and culture
Ethnology
The study of social culture differences and similarities
Anthropological archaeology
The study of human behavior through material remains
Biological anthropology
The study of human biological variations in time and space
Physical anthropology
Same is biological anthropology
Linguistic anthropology
The study of language and linguistic diverse city in time space in society
Sociolinguistics
The study of language in society
Science
Field of study that seeks reliable explanation with reference to the material and physical world
Applied anthropology
Using anthropology to solve contemporary problems
Cultural resource management
Deciding would need saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved
Hypothesis
A suggested but as yet unverified Explanation
Association
And observed relationship between two or more variables
Theory
A set of ideas formulated to explain something
Enculturation
The process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations
Symbol
Something verbal or nonverbal that stands for something else
Culture is what give a small explanation of each
- LEARNED that human capacity to use symbols observation talk directly or unconsciously
- Symbolic linguistic but also nonverbal such as flags Stanford countries something that stands for something else
- Shared unifies people by providing us with common experiences
- Nature takes natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express in a particular way
- all encompassing does that affect peoples every day lives sometimes trivial
- integrated if one part changes the other part changes
- Instrumental they used instruments to fill their basic biological needs for food drink shelter comfort reproduction
- adaptive humans adapt biologically and culturally
- Maladaptive if it helps an individual cope with environmental stress