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Cultural Anthropology Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Answers
Anthropology - ✔️✔️the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human
beings
culture - ✔️✔️the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or
organization
subculture - ✔️✔️a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior
and beliefs
cultural anthropology - ✔️✔️gathers holistic info about cultures in order to construct theories
about cultural patterns; uses ethnography and ethnology
archaeology - ✔️✔️study of past through material remains
physical/biological anthropology - ✔️✔️includes evolution of homo sapiens, physical variations of
humans in the world, and primatology
linguistic anthropology - ✔️✔️study of language and the way ppl use them;entails discriptive
(recording/analyzing graamar) and comparative (relationships between languages)
applied anthropology - ✔️✔️the application of anthropoligical data, perspectives, theory, and
methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems
Emile Durkheim - ✔️✔️Father of sociology, functionalism, metaphysician, mechanical and
organic solidarity, developed idea that division of labor as organizing theme of society
artifacts - ✔️✔️Human made object (tool, jewelry, toys, coins) that teach us about the customs and
belifs of people from the past
reflexive ethnography - ✔️✔️first person, may question whether fieldwrok is final authoritive
realism ehtnography - ✔️✔️3rd person, everything described from an authoritive perspective, the
anthropologist knows all.
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ethnology - ✔️✔️Examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of ethnography
holism - ✔️✔️refers to the study of the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future;
biology, society, language, and culture
ethics - ✔️✔️the moral principles and values people have
culture shock - ✔️✔️a condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to
an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes
enculturation - ✔️✔️the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
unilineal evolution - ✔️✔️The first theoretical anthropological perspective to take root. Proposed
three stages of humanity (savagery, barbarism, civilization), viewed cultural attributes as the
effects of innate, biological differences.
historical particularism - ✔️✔️It argued that each society is a collective representation of its
unique historical past, Instead, historical particularism showed that societies could reach the
same level of cultural development through different means. Franz Boas
cultural materialism - ✔️✔️Marvin Harris; determines human thought and behavior; provides
explanations for comparisons in groups; environment & ppl = 1; relies on ETIC
Infrastructure - ✔️✔️production and reproduction
structure - ✔️✔️domestic and political economy
superstructure - ✔️✔️behavioral/mental
functionalism - ✔️✔️a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an
organism in adapting to the environment
etic - ✔️✔️An outsider's understanding of another culture
emic - ✔️✔️culture described from someone inside the culture
ethnocentrism - ✔️✔️judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards
acculturation - ✔️✔️the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
pidgin - ✔️✔️an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
creole - ✔️✔️a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
dialect - ✔️✔️the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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Cultural Anthropology Exam 1 Practice
Questions and Answers
Anthropology - ✔️✔️the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human
beings
culture - ✔️✔️the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or
organization
subculture - ✔️✔️a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior
and beliefs
cultural anthropology - ✔️✔️gathers holistic info about cultures in order to construct theories
about cultural patterns; uses ethnography and ethnology
archaeology - ✔️✔️study of past through material remains
physical/biological anthropology - ✔️✔️includes evolution of homo sapiens, physical variations of
humans in the world, and primatology
linguistic anthropology - ✔️✔️study of language and the way ppl use them;entails discriptive
(recording/analyzing graamar) and comparative (relationships between languages)
applied anthropology - ✔️✔️the application of anthropoligical data, perspectives, theory, and
methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems
Emile Durkheim - ✔️✔️Father of sociology, functionalism, metaphysician, mechanical and
organic solidarity, developed idea that division of labor as organizing theme of society
artifacts - ✔️✔️Human made object (tool, jewelry, toys, coins) that teach us about the customs and
belifs of people from the past
reflexive ethnography - ✔️✔️first person, may question whether fieldwrok is final authoritive
realism ehtnography - ✔️✔️3rd person, everything described from an authoritive perspective, the
anthropologist knows all.
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ethnology - ✔️✔️Examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of ethnography
holism - ✔️✔️refers to the study of the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future;
biology, society, language, and culture
ethics - ✔️✔️the moral principles and values people have
culture shock - ✔️✔️a condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to
an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes
enculturation - ✔️✔️the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
unilineal evolution - ✔️✔️The first theoretical anthropological perspective to take root. Proposed
three stages of humanity (savagery, barbarism, civilization), viewed cultural attributes as the
effects of innate, biological differences.
historical particularism - ✔️✔️It argued that each society is a collective representation of its
unique historical past, Instead, historical particularism showed that societies could reach the
same level of cultural development through different means. Franz Boas
cultural materialism - ✔️✔️Marvin Harris; determines human thought and behavior; provides
explanations for comparisons in groups; environment & ppl = 1; relies on ETIC
Infrastructure - ✔️✔️production and reproduction
structure - ✔️✔️domestic and political economy
superstructure - ✔️✔️behavioral/mental
functionalism - ✔️✔️a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an
organism in adapting to the environment
etic - ✔️✔️An outsider's understanding of another culture
emic - ✔️✔️culture described from someone inside the culture
ethnocentrism - ✔️✔️judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards
acculturation - ✔️✔️the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
pidgin - ✔️✔️an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
creole - ✔️✔️a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
dialect - ✔️✔️the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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