Chapter 2 Test Flashcards
(19 cards)
The organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system
Language
A cluster of interrelated culture traits
Cultural complex
The belief that culture should be judged by their own standards
Cultural relativism
The combination of a number of cultures complex into an interrelated whole
Culture pattern
The Kwakiutl practiced sharing ceremonies called
Pottaches
The belief that one’s own culture or group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
The shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable
Value
The physical objects of material culture
Artifacts
Consist of all the shared products of human groups
Culture
Common features of all societies
Cultural universals
Written rule of conduct enacted and enforced by the government
Laws
Examples include automobiles, clothing, and buildings
Material culture
Anthropologist who studied the Yanomamö
Napoleón Chagnon
Group of mutually interdepend people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity
Society
Norms that have great moral significance attached to them
Mores
Groups that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society
Counterculture
Anthropologist who complied a list of over 60 cultural universals
George Murdock
Examples are ideas, beliefs, and rules
Nonmaterial culture
Anything’s that stands for something else and had a shared meaning attached to it
Symbols
