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"the truth is that cultural anthropology is the ____(1)______, interpretation, and
_____(2)_____ of similarities and differences in human cultures."
✓ -:- (1)description
(2)analysis
what is definition of cultural anthropology?
✓ -:- the truth is that cultural anthropology is the description, interpretation, and
analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures.
what are the 4 subfield of anthropology?
✓ -:- archaeology
cultural/social
physical/biological
linguistics
what is physical and biological anthropology?
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✓ -:- involves the study of human anatomy, nonhuman primates, and human origins
What is linguistic anthropology?
✓ -:- the study of human languages
What is archeology anthropology?
✓ -:- the study of material artifacts to understand a peoples culture or society
what is the primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologist is__________.
✓ -:- ethnography
what is ethnography?
✓ -:- a type of research in which individuals are observed in their natural settings
"because cultural anthropology draws together ___(1)_____, ____(2)___,
___(3)______,____(4)_____,_____(5)_____, and ___(6)___ to understand people's social
and cultural lives, it overlaps with several disciplines, but none more than _____(7)______.
✓ -:- (1) history
(2) economics
(3) family
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(4) politics
(5) religion
(6) psycology
(7) sociology *know
who was Margaret Mead?
✓ -:- (1901-1978)
- sexuality
- Coming of Age in Samoa
who was Franz Boas?
✓ -:- Father of American Anthropology
- theory of relativism
- culture is invaluable
- Race, Language, and Culture
who was Clifford Geertz?
✓ -:- - symbolism
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who is Ruth Benedict?
✓ -:-
"Later missionary anthropologists and linguists made significant contributions to the
discipline from work that flowed directly from their ______(1)_______ work in Bible
translation and evangelism, even establishing scholarly journals such as ______(2)______
and ______(3)______ (formerly known as Practical Anthropology) with the express purpose
of bringing together anthropology and missiology"
✓ -:- (1) Christian
(2) Anthropos
(3) Missionology
chapter 2
✓ -:-
"The ethnic fair assumptions about cultures as _____(1)____ bounded and _____(2)______
homogenous entities simply didn't with stand scrutiny"
✓ -:- (1) neatly
(2) highly
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