UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10) UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. Ethnocetnrism assuming that one's own way of life is the best and using it as the measure for
judging others
2. Society -organized human groups that are held together by subtle structures that can be
studied
-Internally differentiated by categories though which human interaction is con-
ducted and makes sense
3. Culture complex and patterned ways that people have learned to live and understand their
lives as parts of groups
4. Enculturation the process of learning culture, formal and inchoate
5. Cultural Critique defamiliarization from one's own cultural context in order to unsettle one's as-
sumptions about society and culture (reflection through distance)
6. Cultural produc- culture is not static or given, people make culture in relation to their environments
tion (human creativity, cultural change, power)
ex:cock fight
7. Anthropology making the strange familiar
8. Fieldwork meth- -observation
ods -interviewing
-conversation
-genealogies/networks
-topic-specific data collection
9. Emic from the perspective of someone in a community
10. etic from analyst's outside perspective
11. Institutions
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, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10) UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
organized elements of society, a form of social organization
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
12. Holistic cultural complexity requires attention to many facets of life, such as politics, reli-
gion, economy and more
13. Theory set of concepts about an area of concern that help to explain, predict, define
14. Cultural Evolu- savagery -> barbarism -> civilization
tion
stages of development
15. Historical Partic- -culture determines human variation in behavior and personality
ularism -study cultural phenomena in local detail/context in order to understand their
historical development
16. cultural Material- -material conditions of existence determine social relations that, in turn, are re-
ism flected and reinforced by ideas and beliefs
17. stucturalism -culture expresses universal human need to organize the world through categoris
and symbols
18. Symbolic Anthro- -study of how people make and communicate meaning through symbols
pology -examine symbols in their social and cultural context
19. Interpretive An- -approaches culture as texts, analyzing symbols and meanings in culural and
thropology historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
20. Cultural Appro- Importance of symbols and cultural production, need to understand historical
priation context of symbol
21. Life cycle
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Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. Ethnocetnrism assuming that one's own way of life is the best and using it as the measure for
judging others
2. Society -organized human groups that are held together by subtle structures that can be
studied
-Internally differentiated by categories though which human interaction is con-
ducted and makes sense
3. Culture complex and patterned ways that people have learned to live and understand their
lives as parts of groups
4. Enculturation the process of learning culture, formal and inchoate
5. Cultural Critique defamiliarization from one's own cultural context in order to unsettle one's as-
sumptions about society and culture (reflection through distance)
6. Cultural produc- culture is not static or given, people make culture in relation to their environments
tion (human creativity, cultural change, power)
ex:cock fight
7. Anthropology making the strange familiar
8. Fieldwork meth- -observation
ods -interviewing
-conversation
-genealogies/networks
-topic-specific data collection
9. Emic from the perspective of someone in a community
10. etic from analyst's outside perspective
11. Institutions
1/8
, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10) UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
organized elements of society, a form of social organization
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
12. Holistic cultural complexity requires attention to many facets of life, such as politics, reli-
gion, economy and more
13. Theory set of concepts about an area of concern that help to explain, predict, define
14. Cultural Evolu- savagery -> barbarism -> civilization
tion
stages of development
15. Historical Partic- -culture determines human variation in behavior and personality
ularism -study cultural phenomena in local detail/context in order to understand their
historical development
16. cultural Material- -material conditions of existence determine social relations that, in turn, are re-
ism flected and reinforced by ideas and beliefs
17. stucturalism -culture expresses universal human need to organize the world through categoris
and symbols
18. Symbolic Anthro- -study of how people make and communicate meaning through symbols
pology -examine symbols in their social and cultural context
19. Interpretive An- -approaches culture as texts, analyzing symbols and meanings in culural and
thropology historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
20. Cultural Appro- Importance of symbols and cultural production, need to understand historical
priation context of symbol
21. Life cycle
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