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What’s Physical Anthropology?

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-Human Fossils
-Distinctive features of contemporary groups.

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What’s Archeology?

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-Material remains from past cultures
-Ecological environments
-Causes that led to its demise

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What’s Anthropology Linguistics?

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-Diversity of spoken languages
-Reconstruct the history of their origin

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What’s Cultural Anthropology ?

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Or Social Anthropology
-Description from past and today’s culture.
-Medical, urban, religion…

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Evolutionist school: the scientist have to discover the stages of all cultures to reach the highest level of development

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True

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3 stages of development according to the Taxonomy of Marzal #1

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  1. Description of other cultures and reflection on the transformation of their practices
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3 stages of development according to the Taxonomy of Marzal #2

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  1. Search for scientific laws of evolution of societies and their institutions
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3 stages of development according to the Taxonomy of Marzal #3

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  1. Search for scientific laws of the functioning of societies, from divergent approaches
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Which school argues that the societies shall pass through states of development?

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Evolutionist School
-Scientific
-Highest level of development
-European societies

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Who established the bases of the study of the anthropology and proposed the first concept of culture?

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Tylor

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Who proposed a classification of the evolution of mankind in three stages?

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Lewis H. Morgan

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Lower Savagery:

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Collection of
-wild food
-promiscuity
-nomadic horde

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Higher Savegery:

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-Utensils for hunting (bows and arrows)
-Banned marraige among siblings

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Barbarism:

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-Agriculture and pottery
-Prohibition of incest

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Higher Barbarism:

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-Development of Metallurgy
-Private property instead of common goods.
-Polygyny

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Civilization:

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-Writing development
-CIvil government
-Monogamy

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Historical Particularism (school):

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-Every culture or society is the consequence of its own process

-NO to the existence of savage cultures and higher cultures

-Its model had to be the only one

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Difussionism (school):

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-Cultures adopted their elements by imitation.

-Cultural characteristics diffused from one society to another

-Acculturation (exchange of cultural features)

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Functionalism (school):

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-Describe the functions of the customs and institutions for the society studied

-Understand its origins

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Structural Functionalism (school):

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-Society was organized as a whole

-Importance of field work for long periods which provides valid and reliable data

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French Structuralism (school):

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-Society was organized as a whole

-Importance of field work for long periods which provides valid and reliable data

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1 of the most representative works: research about the way the society keeps integrated and allows its appropriate funct

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Functionalism

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What’s Ethnocentrism?

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Judging other cultures using our own cultural standards

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What’s Affinity?

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Set of relationships that link two groups through marriage and social solidarity with people outside the nuclear family. In law relatives.

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What's Enculturation?
Learning process of the culture which we are exposed and we become the bearer of society
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What's Acculturation?
Exchange of cultural features
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What's Otherness?
-Relationship with beings that suggest the notion of other as interpersonal phenomenon -Identity is discovered by observing the diversity of others
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Propose to include the influence of the natural environment with cultural factors, such as technology and the economy.
Cultural Ecology
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What's State?
Political unit with an independent government and a centralized organization
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What's The Universal Pattern of Cultures?
Method that allows collecting and organizing data according to the sociocultural whole present in all cultures
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UPC : Infrastructure
-Society meets its minimum requirements for subsistence -Family, friends and in law-relationships
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UPC: Structure
-Society is organized into groups for regulate goods and labor -Companies, employees and workes
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UPC : Superstructure
-Artistic, recreational, intellectual and religious activities -All activities from the internal pov of the before ones.
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3 Phases - Concept of Culture (Giménez)
-Particular Phase - customs -Abstract Phase - models -Symbolic Phase - meanings
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2 types of marriage:
1. Exogamous: marriage w/someone from the outside the group. 2.Endogamous: marriage w/someone from the group.
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4 Vital Functions of Family:
1. Sexual Relations 2. Reproduction 3. Education 4. Subsistence
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What's Genealogy?
-Family history -It studies the ancestry and the offspring -Kinship
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Shamanist and Ecclesiastical:
-Shamanist: specialized person who resorts people at difficult times. -Ecclesiastical: full-time commitment, rulling class of society
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Sacred and Protane:
Sacred: rituals with the divine Protane: ordinary events of life
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Medical Anthropology:
-Social perceptions of disease -Influence of culture in diagnosis
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Urban Anthropology?
-Way individuals from various places solve their conflicts -Identity of population
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Economic Development:
-Examine social conflicts and cultural dimension of that development -Attention to vulnerable groups and equity
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Educational Anthropology:
-Attempts to bring education to everyone -Contradiction between the set of beliefs from the society and the textbooks
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Educational Anthropology:
-Attempts to bring education to everyone -Contradiction between the set of beliefs from the society and the textbooks