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L1 (Cultural Anthropology) The Four Fields of General Anthropology Flashcards

1
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Origin of Anthropology

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Western

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2
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Continent/s that has or have a political take on Anthropology

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Latin America and Africa

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3
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Continent/s that only associate/s Anthropology to Cultural Anthropology

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Europe and other parts of the world aside from North America

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4
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The continent that has four fields in Anthropology

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North America

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5
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Archaeology or ______

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Prehistory

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6
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Focuses on past cultures by examining material remains

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Archaeology

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Four Examples of Material Remains

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  1. Stone and bone tools
  2. Skeletal material
  3. Remains of buildings
  4. Refuse
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8
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Type of refuse. Broken pieces of pottery.

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Postherds

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9
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Type of refuse. Fossilized fecal matter.

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Corpolites

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10
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The traditional focus of archaeological research

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grand sites and artifacts

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Smalls towns and villages, and simple everyday life was overlooked.

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capital-centric bias of traditional archaeological research

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12
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The current focus of archaeological research

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center-local interactions

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13
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Other term for Biological Anthropology

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Physical Anthropology

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14
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Focuses on the understanding of human variation, adaptation, and change by studying many forms of life, human, and non-human, past and present

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Biological or Physical Anthropology

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15
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Which subfield of Biological Anthropology studies nonhuman primates and compares their behavior to human primates?

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Primatology

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16
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Which subfield of Biological Anthropology studies prehistoric diseases?

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Paleopathology

17
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This subfield of Biological Anthropology studies human growth and development, nutrition, health and changes due to numerous factors in the current world, and genetic distributions across population and how genetic change occurs over time.

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Contemporary Human Biological Variation

18
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This subfield of Biological Anthropology views culture & society by the rules of Darwin’s natural selection and group fitness.

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Sociobiology

19
Q

One original focus of Linguistic Anthropology is to document disappearing __________ languages.

A

Native American

20
Q

Another focus of Linguistic Anthropology is to learn to document ___________ of cultures with no _________.

A

unwritten languages, writing system

21
Q

The field of Anthropology that is believed by some anthropologist to have declined in importance.

A

Linguistic Anthropology

22
Q

Languages change all the time, it needs to be _____ and _____.

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documented, analyzed

23
Q

Examples of new media that Linguistic Anthropology currently branches out to.

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mass media
email
music
ads
movies
social media

24
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Other term for Cultural Anthropology

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Social Anthropology

25
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This field of Anthropology studies how culture differ from or resembles one another and why, and how different cultures influence each other.

A

Cultural Anthropology

26
Q

“Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange,” (Spiro, 1990) means?

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decenter ourselves from our own culture
outsiders perspective

27
Q

This field of Anthropology encompasses all aspects of human behavior and beliefs.

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Cultural or Social Anthropology

28
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This field of Anthropology considers how change occurs in the different areas of culture.

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Cultural or Social Anthropology

29
Q

This field of Anthropology is not yet widely accepted as one.

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Applied Anthropology

30
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This field of Anthropology involves the use or application of anthropological knowledge to help solve social problems.

A

Applied Anthropology

31
Q

Applied Anthropology should maintain as a separate field because it has an extended role, such as, direct and strong effects on the negative consequences of _______.

A

capitalist globalization

32
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Applied Anthropology focuses _____ interactions and their changes over time.

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global-local

33
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An attitude that cultural anthropologists must have.

A

noninvolvement in change

34
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Applied Anthropology should merge with other fields because _________ should go hand-in-hand.

A

theory and practice

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