Test 1

Question 1

Positionality

Answer 1

A persons uniquely situated social position. Gender, nationality,political views, past experiences, etc

Question 2

Subjective meaning

Answer 2

Meaning that seems true to a particular person

Question 3

Inter subjective meaning

Answer 3

Meaning rooted in the symbolic system of a culture and shared by participants of that culture

Question 4

Positivism

Answer 4

View that there is a single reality “out there” that can be detected through the senses

Question 5

Reflexive commitment

Answer 5

Anthropologists must reveal to everyone involved how data is gathered

Question 6

Reflexivity

Answer 6

Critically thinking about the way one thinks, reflecting on your own experiences

Question 7

Mark of good field work

Answer 7

To be surprised

Willing to change earlier views

Question 8

Validity

Answer 8

Accuracy of instruments data and findings

Question 9

Reliability

Answer 9

Whether you can repeat the same finding

Question 10

Ethnographic techniques (7)

Answer 10

• Prticipant observation
• Sampling procedure
• Semi structured interview
• Household survey/ census
• Life histories & narrative interviews
• Key informant interviews
• Eliciting symbolic representation

Question 11

Ethnography

Answer 11

An anthropologist recorded description of a particular group of people’s way of life
(Defines sociocultural anthropology)

Question 12

Racialism

Answer 12

Belief in race

Question 13

Archaeology

Answer 13

Study of human past through material culture

Question 14

Linguistic anthropology

Answer 14

Concerned with study of human language

Question 15

Cultural anthropology

Answer 15

Focus on sets of learned behaviour & ideas that humans acquire as members of society

Question 16

Binary opposition

Answer 16

Ex pair of dualist forces (mind and body)

Question 17

Traditional culture

Answer 17

Aspects of the past people want to protect maintain or retrieve

Question 18

Cultural pattern

Answer 18

A behaviour or idea that members of a society repeatedly pass on across generations that is recognized by all members of that society

Question 19

Habitus

Answer 19

Everyday, routine, habitual behaviour

Question 20

Ethnocentrism

Answer 20

The opinion that ones own way of life is natural or correct

Question 21

Cultural relativism

Answer 21

Approaching other cultures with sympathy not thinking your way of life is better

Question 22

Pragmatics

Answer 22

Study of language in context of its use

Question 23

Heteroglossia

Answer 23

The coexistence off multiple varieties of a specific language

Question 24

Ethnopragmatics

Answer 24

Study of language use In a specific culture

Question 25

Syntax

Answer 25

Study of language structure

Question 26

Phonology

Answer 26

Study of the sounds of language

Question 27

Morphology

Answer 27

Study of smallest units of meaning in a language

Question 28

Pidgeon language

Answer 28

Fairly simple language with no native speakers developed in a single generation between members of communities that posses distinct native language

Question 29

Creole

Answer 29

A complex language with native speakers developed over one or more past generations of 2 or more distinct languages

Question 30

Language revitalization

Answer 30

Attempts by linguists & activist to preserve/revive languages with few native speakers

Question 31

The basian theory

Answer 31

``` 4 field anthropology 1- biological 2-archaeological 3-linguistics 4-cultural ```

Question 32

Primatology

Answer 32

Study of non human primates

Question 33

Paleo anthropology

Answer 33

Study of fossilized remains of humans earliest ancestors

Question 34

5 elements of human capacity

Answer 34

Transmission: ability to copy behaviour by observation/ instruction Memory: ability to remember new behaviours Reiteration: ability to reproduce/imitate behaviour and info that’s been learned Innovation: ability to invent/modify behaviour Selection: ability to select which innovations to keep/discard

Question 35

Sociolinguistics

Answer 35

The study of language in relation to social factors