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Anthropology

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-Study of the full scope of human diversity (past and present)
-Help people of different backgrounds understand each other
-A way to solve problems
-Study human history and origins
-Make strange familiar

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Ethnocentrism

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-Belief that one’s own culture is normal or natural
-Form how we think, prepare, and understand reality
-Using your culture to judge and evaluate a different culture

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Ethnographic Fieldwork

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-Primary research strategy
-Living and interacting with a community in an extended period of time
-Put people first
-Focus on details and patterns of human life

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Cross-Cultural and Comparative Approach

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-Anthropologists compare practices across cultures to explore human similarities, differences, and potential for human cultural expression
-Unlimited diversity of human expression

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4-Field Approach

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-4 disciplines to study humanity
-Biological, archaeology, linguistic, and cultural

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Agency

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-Potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, mental maps of reality, symbols, institutions, and structures of power
-Ability to determine ones life
-In relationship to others and institutions
-Power dynamic

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Paleoanthropology

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-Study of the history of human evolution through fossil record

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Biological/ Physical Anthropology

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-Study of how humans evolved overtime and adapted to environments

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Primatology

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-Study of nonhuman primates and primate fossils to better understand human evolution and early human behavior

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Archaeology

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-Investigation of human past by means of excavation and analyzing artifacts
-Prehistoric: before language
-Historic: material remains, with written oral record

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Linguistic Anthropology

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-Complex system of symbols to communicate

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Sociolinguistics

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-Study of language in social and cultural contexts

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Cultural Anthropology

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-Study of people’s communities, behaviors, beliefs, and institutions (everyday life)
-Search for patterns and meanings
-Participant observation
-Explained/ examine everyday and taken-for-granted (hidden systems of power/ meaning)

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Participant Observation

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-Participation and observation of the daily life of subjects

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Ethnology

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-Analysis and comparison of ethnographic data across cultures
-Intense interaction with locals
-Over an extended period of time
-Uncover cultural practices that challenge “natural” or “universal” beliefs

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Globalization

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-Worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas within and across national boundaries

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Time-Space Compression

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-Rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space (distances) and time

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Flexible Accumulation

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-Flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies

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Uneven Development

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-The unequal distribution of the benefits of globalization

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Anthropocene

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-Current historical era in which human activity is reshaping the planet in permanent ways

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Culture

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-System of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions
-Created, shared, and contested
-Communicate/ establish patterns of behavior
-Constantly changing
-Shared experience/ understanding
-Learned and taught
-Formal/informal
-Enculturation: process of learning culture
-Conscious/ unconscious
-Equally capable

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Norms

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-Ideas or rules about how people should behave in situations
-Assumed
-Formal/ informal
-Shared experiences

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Values

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-Fundamental beliefs about what is important
-Clarify goals
-Inform actions

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Symbols

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-Convey meaning
-Standard for something else
-Verbal/ nonverbal
-Carry greater meaning than physical material
-Changes

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Mental Maps of Reality
-Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist and the assignment of meaning to classifications -Shortcuts to navigate experiences -Reflect power -Assume to be universal/ natural/ scientific -Assign meaning and value
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Unilateral Cultural Evolution
-Theory that all cultures naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from simple to complex -19th centry anthropologists
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Historical Particularism
-Cultures develop in specific ways because of unique histories -Franz Boas
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Structural Functionalism
-Conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system equal
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Thick Description
-Research strategy that combines detailed descriptions of cultural activity with an analysis of the layers of deep cultural meaning in which those activities are embedded
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Interpretivist Approach
-Conceptual framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic system of deep meaning
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Power
-Ability to bring about change through action or influence -Aspect of all human relations -Uneven distribution of power fluctuates -Material power: ability to exert authority through coercion/ brute force
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Stratification
-Uneven distribution of resources and privileges among participants in a groups or culture
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Hegemony
-The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force -Create consent/agreement -Establish what is normal/ natural/ possible -Discipline own behavior
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Epigenetics
-Explores how environmental factors directly affect the expression of genes in ways that may be inherited between generations
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Human Microbiome
-The complete collection of microorganisms in the human body's ecosystem
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Symbol
-Anything that represents something else
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Salvage Ethnography
-Fieldwork strategy to collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about Native American populations being devastates by the westward expansion -Franz Boas
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Cultual Relativism
-Understanding a group's beliefs and practices within their own cultural context, without making judgements
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Reflexivity
-Self-examination of the role anthropologists plays and an awareness that one's identity affects one's fieldwork and theoretical analysis
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Anthropologists Toolkit
-Tools needed to conduct fieldwork -Key informant/ Cultural consultant: community member who advises on community issues and provides feedback -Life history: interview that traces the biography of a person over time, examining changes in the person's life and interlocking network of relationships in the community -Survey -Kinship analysis: examining interlocking relationships of power built on marriages and family -Social network analysis: examines relationships in a community -Field notes -Mapping: analysis of physical/ geographic space where fieldwork is conducted
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Built Environment
-Intentional designed features of human settlement -Infrastructure, transportation, and public spaces
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Mutual Transformation
-Potential for both members of society and anthropologist to be changed by the interaction of fieldwork
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Zeros
-Elements of a story that are not told/ seen and offer key insights into issues that might be too sensitive to discuss or display publicly
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Emic
-Approach to gather data that investigates how local people think and how they understand the world
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Etic
-Description of local behavior and beliefs from the anthropologists perspective in ways that can be compared across cultures
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Polyvocality
-Practice of using many voices in ethnographic writing and research question development
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Language
-System of communication organized by rules that use symbols to convey information -Infinite choices -Shareable -Is flexible and inventive -Reflects ideas and experiences -Limits and constrains -Share and learn culture -Used differently depending on space/ people -Connected to identity -Site of power relations
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Historical Linguistics
-Study of the development of language over time
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Language Continuum
-Variation in languages appears gradually over distance so that groups of people who live near one another speak in a way that is mutually intelligible
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Speech Community
-Group of people who come to share certain norms of language use through living and communicating together
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Descriptive Linguistics
-Study the sounds, symbols, and gestures of a language -Phonemes: smallest unit of sound that makes a different meaning -Phonology: study of what sound exists and how its used in language -Morphemes: smallest unit of sound that carries meaning alone -Morphology: study of patterns and rules of how sounds combine -Syntax: specific patterns and rules for combining morphemes to make phrases -Grammar: rules governing phonemes, morphemes, and syntax
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Kinesics
-Study of the relationship between body movement and communication
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Paralanguage
-Set of noises and tones of voice that convey significant information about the speaker
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Linguistic Relativity
-Languages will develop the distinctive categories necessary for those who speak them to deal with realities around them
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
-Different languages create different ways of thinking
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Lexicon
-All words for names, ideas, and events make up a languages dictionary
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Sociolinguistics
-Study of the ways culture shapes language and language shapes culture
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Dialect
-Nonstandard variation of a language
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Prestige Language
-Language variation that is associated with wealth, success, power and education
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Language Ideology
-Beliefs and conceptions about language that often serves to rationalize and justify patterns of stratification and inequity
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Code Switching
Switching back and forth between one linguistic variant and another
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Language Loss
The extinction of languages that have very few speakers

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