Other Important things to remember

Question 1

The Holistic approach

Answer 1

Anthropologists not only study all varieties of people; they also study many aspects of human experience.
History of the area in which the people live, the physical environment, organization of family life, general features of their language, the group’s settlement patterns, political and economic systems, religion, and styles of art and dress.

Question 2

Geography

Answer 2

where things are and why they are there. they attempt to understand the characteristics of things. spatial science.

Question 3

Economics

Answer 3

concerned with what decisions people make and why they make them (usually to improve well-being). macroeconomics considers the aggregated outcomes.

Question 4

Political Science

Answer 4

very basically, POWER.
power is always an inequitable distribution in every society, government is an exercise of power and control.

Question 5

Sociology

Answer 5

structures, and how people interact in these.

Question 6

History

Answer 6

information about how people and societies behave (needed as a reference),
only through history can we understand how things change.

Question 7

transculturation

Answer 7

when an individual moves into another society and adopts its culture

Question 8

forces at work within a society

Answer 8

change: invention and culture loss (eg car culture replacing horse culture)
resist: habit and integration of culture traits

Question 9

contact between society

Answer 9

change: diffusion, acculturation, transculturation (+assimilation)
resist: us versus them mindset, ethnocentrism

Question 10

stimulus diffusion

Answer 10

idea diffuses from another culture, leads to a genuine invention

Question 11

environmental changes

Answer 11

war, invention, migration