Unit 1 review

Question 1

Your culture should take a backseat, to look at culture through their yardstick and not your own

Answer 1

Cultural Relatvism

Question 2

Student of Boaz, Coming of Age in Samoa

Answer 2

Margaret Mead

Question 3

Where does anthropology come from

Answer 3

Key changes in european thinking, colonialism, industrialism, challenges to biblical history

Question 4

Early definition of culture, first to propose anthropology as a science

Answer 4

Edward Tylor

Question 5

‘survival of the fittest’

Answer 5

Herbert Spencer

Question 6

Study of kinship among Native Americans

Answer 6

Lewis Henry Morgan

Question 7

All cultures share certain features, on same path, and get more complex to be more fit

Answer 7

Unilineal Cultural Evolution

Question 8

In depth study of lives of everyday people and their practices, unique form of augmentation

Answer 8

Ethnography

Question 9

Symbolic Anthropologist, most recent definition of culture

Answer 9

Clifford Geertz

Question 10

While cultures behave differenly, how do these practices meet basic needs of humans

Answer 10

Functionalism

Question 11

The insider’s view, explain why you do something

Answer 11

emic

Question 12

the outsider’s view, explain why they do something

Answer 12

etic

Question 13

organizational tool based on regions

Answer 13

area studies

Question 14

what you want to study

Answer 14

topic

Question 15

studying daily lives of a culture, what they do, how they live

Answer 15

observation/participant observation

Question 16

Having someone in the community involved in your study

Answer 16

key informant

Question 17

Talking to people in the culture

Answer 17

conversations/interviews

Question 18

tracing back and mapping lineages

Answer 18

geneological method

Question 19

upbringing and backstories, doing a biography

Answer 19

life histories

Question 20

research moves with the subject

Answer 20

multi-sited research

Question 21

techniques reimagined for digital age

Answer 21

digital ethnography

Question 22

doing research with others, studying different parts of same things

Answer 22

team based research

Question 23

going in with specific message in mind, what do you want to study?

Answer 23

problem based research

Question 24

Do not harm, consent, make results accessible

Answer 24

ethical considerations

Question 25

study of symbols

Answer 25

semiotics

Question 26

first building block of a sound

Answer 26

phoneme

Question 27

minimal unit of meaning

Answer 27

mopheme

Question 28

how to organize words to create meaning

Answer 28

syntax

Question 29

meaning of words, phrases and sentences

Answer 29

semantics

Question 30

speech acts, context to phrases

Answer 30

pragmatics

Question 31

one meaning hints to another

Answer 31

indexing

Question 32

thought, identity and truth

Answer 32

language structures

Question 33

linguistic relativity, humans see the world/words because of language you speak

Answer 33

thought

Question 34

range of words available, shapes the world you think about

Answer 34

lexicon

Question 35

indicates cultural value

Answer 35

specificity

Question 36

shared cultural understanding, doesn't have to be based in reality

Answer 36

metaphor

Question 37

choice of language indicate community, code-switching, race and ethnicity, etc

Answer 37

identity

Question 38

degree of which words align with what you are trying to talk about.

Answer 38

denotational accuracy

Question 39

cultured specific, language shapes whether people are being honest

Answer 39

truth