UNH Anthro 411 Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-What is Anthropology? | | | | |
•Study of people, humankind, culture
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| •4 fields
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| •Area Studies |
•Holistic and comparative | |
•Academic and Applied | |
- The study of humans - blends both biological and cultural aspects, past
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present and future, differences and similarities
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What is culture? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"a system of knowledge,
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beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created,
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learned, and shared by a group of people"
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- Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
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,Culture is.. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Culture is...
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•The way of life of a people, the things they do and make, their ideas
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•Norms, values, symbols, material objects
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•Layered
| •Subcultures and universals | |
•Continuously reworked and created | | |
•Shared
•Transgenerational |
•Socially constructed—taught enculturation, permeates our thinking
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and behavior
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•Tells us what is right, "normal and natural"
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•Enculturation and Socialization | |
- Continuously reworked and created, not static
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E.B. Tylor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founder of cultural anthropology
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- "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that
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complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
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custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
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member of society." (E.B. Tylor, 1871)
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Characteristics of Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) most important | | | | | | | |
adaptive mechanism |
, 2)learned, thus non-instinctual | |
3)Shared and symbolic | |
4)cumulative, but also constantly changing | | | |
5)All encompassing
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Enculturation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The Process of learning norms of
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a particular culture
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Holism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The anthropological commitment to
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consider the full scope of human life, including culture, biology, history,
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and language, across space and time.
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Norms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Appropriate or accepted behavior
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Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Belief in the superiority of one's | | | | | | | |
nation or ethnic group. Also the evaluation of other cultures according
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to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's
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own culture |
Cultural Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The practice of judging a
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culture by its own standards
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Correct Answers
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-What is Anthropology? | | | | |
•Study of people, humankind, culture
| | | |
| •4 fields
|
| •Area Studies |
•Holistic and comparative | |
•Academic and Applied | |
- The study of humans - blends both biological and cultural aspects, past
| | | | | | | | | | | |
present and future, differences and similarities
| | | | | |
What is culture? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"a system of knowledge,
| | | | | | | | |
beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created,
| | | | | | | | | |
learned, and shared by a group of people"
| | | | | | |
- Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
| | | | | | | | | |
,Culture is.. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Culture is...
| | | | |
•The way of life of a people, the things they do and make, their ideas
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
•Norms, values, symbols, material objects
| | | |
•Layered
| •Subcultures and universals | |
•Continuously reworked and created | | |
•Shared
•Transgenerational |
•Socially constructed—taught enculturation, permeates our thinking
| | | | | |
and behavior
|
•Tells us what is right, "normal and natural"
| | | | | | |
•Enculturation and Socialization | |
- Continuously reworked and created, not static
| | | | | |
E.B. Tylor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founder of cultural anthropology
| | | | | | |
- "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that
| | | | | | | | | | | |
complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
| | | | | | | | |
custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
| | | | | | | | | | | |
member of society." (E.B. Tylor, 1871)
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Characteristics of Culture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) most important | | | | | | | |
adaptive mechanism |
, 2)learned, thus non-instinctual | |
3)Shared and symbolic | |
4)cumulative, but also constantly changing | | | |
5)All encompassing
|
Enculturation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The Process of learning norms of
| | | | | | | | |
a particular culture
| |
Holism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The anthropological commitment to
| | | | | | |
consider the full scope of human life, including culture, biology, history,
| | | | | | | | | | |
and language, across space and time.
| | | | |
Norms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Appropriate or accepted behavior
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Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Belief in the superiority of one's | | | | | | | |
nation or ethnic group. Also the evaluation of other cultures according
| | | | | | | | | | | |
to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's
| | | | | | | | | |
own culture |
Cultural Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The practice of judging a
| | | | | | | | |
culture by its own standards
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