Social Anthropology Exam 1
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Grade A+
Anthropology
Ans: the study of humankind, of ancient and contemporary people and their ways of living.
knowledge about or reason about humans.
Four areas of Anthropology
Ans: Sociocultural anthro, bio/physical anthro, archaeology, linguistics.
Social Anthropology
Ans: Whole of human society as area of interest, and tried to understand ways in which
human lives are unique, but also familiar.
-how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, create meaning.
-race, sexuality, class, gender, nationality
-emphasis on participant observation
-how local knowledge put to work in practical and philosophical problems
, Participant-observation/fieldwork
Ans: living among the people whose culture they are studying, observing them and
participating in their lives as much as they can
- generally accepted to stay long enough to be considered more or less natural
-can take role of clown or expert
-urban more discontinuous than village fieldwork
-time intensive
Strength of knowledge in fieldwork
Ans: -mastery of both languages
-tools of analysis
cultural relativism
Ans: a theory that cultural codes of one group of people are not more moral than those of
another
-societies are qualitatively different, thus, scientifically absurd to compare
-does not in itself contain moral principle, thus, cannot be opposite of enthnocentrism
-probably impossible in practice
culture
Questions and Answers | New One |
Grade A+
Anthropology
Ans: the study of humankind, of ancient and contemporary people and their ways of living.
knowledge about or reason about humans.
Four areas of Anthropology
Ans: Sociocultural anthro, bio/physical anthro, archaeology, linguistics.
Social Anthropology
Ans: Whole of human society as area of interest, and tried to understand ways in which
human lives are unique, but also familiar.
-how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern, create meaning.
-race, sexuality, class, gender, nationality
-emphasis on participant observation
-how local knowledge put to work in practical and philosophical problems
, Participant-observation/fieldwork
Ans: living among the people whose culture they are studying, observing them and
participating in their lives as much as they can
- generally accepted to stay long enough to be considered more or less natural
-can take role of clown or expert
-urban more discontinuous than village fieldwork
-time intensive
Strength of knowledge in fieldwork
Ans: -mastery of both languages
-tools of analysis
cultural relativism
Ans: a theory that cultural codes of one group of people are not more moral than those of
another
-societies are qualitatively different, thus, scientifically absurd to compare
-does not in itself contain moral principle, thus, cannot be opposite of enthnocentrism
-probably impossible in practice
culture
