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 mea-
sure for judging others
2. Society -organized human groups that are
held together by subtle structures
that can be studied
-Internally differentiated by cate-
gories though which human interac-
tion is conducted 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, for-
mal and inchoate
5. Cultural Critique defamiliarization from one's own
cultural context in order to unsettle
one's assumptions about society and
culture (reflection through distance)
6. Cultural production culture is not static or given, people
make culture in relation to their envi-
ronments (human creativity, cultural
change, power)
ex:cock fight
7. Anthropology making the strange familiar
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8. Fieldwork methods -observation
-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 organized elements of society, a
form of social organization
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
12. Holistic cultural complexity requires atten-
tion to many facets of life, such as
politics, religion, economy and more
13. Theory set of concepts about an area of con-
cern that help to explain, predict, de-
fine
14. Cultural Evolution savagery -> barbarism -> civilization
stages of development
15. Historical Particularism -culture determines human variation
in behavior and personality
-study cultural phenomena in lo-
cal detail/context in order to under-
stand their historical development
16. cultural Materialism
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-material conditions of existence de-
termine social relations that, in turn,
are reflected and reinforced by ideas
and beliefs
17. stucturalism -culture expresses universal human
need to organize the world through
categoris and symbols
18. Symbolic Anthropology -study of how people make
and communicate meaning through
symbols
-examine symbols in their social and
cultural context
19. Interpretive Anthropology -approaches culture as texts, analyz-
ing symbols and meanings in culural
and historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
20. Cultural Appropriation Importance of symbols and cultural
production, need to understand his-
torical context of symbol
21. Life cycle divison of life course into meaningful
segments/stages
-stages not always obvious
ex: maasi
22. social reproduction -processes by which a society repro-
duces itself over time
-reproduction not just at an individ-
ual level
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. Ethnocetnrism assuming that one's own way of life
is the best and using it as the mea-
sure for judging others
2. Society -organized human groups that are
held together by subtle structures
that can be studied
-Internally differentiated by cate-
gories though which human interac-
tion is conducted 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, for-
mal and inchoate
5. Cultural Critique defamiliarization from one's own
cultural context in order to unsettle
one's assumptions about society and
culture (reflection through distance)
6. Cultural production culture is not static or given, people
make culture in relation to their envi-
ronments (human creativity, cultural
change, power)
ex:cock fight
7. Anthropology making the strange familiar
, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10)UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
8. Fieldwork methods -observation
-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 organized elements of society, a
form of social organization
ex: state, marriage, religion, law
12. Holistic cultural complexity requires atten-
tion to many facets of life, such as
politics, religion, economy and more
13. Theory set of concepts about an area of con-
cern that help to explain, predict, de-
fine
14. Cultural Evolution savagery -> barbarism -> civilization
stages of development
15. Historical Particularism -culture determines human variation
in behavior and personality
-study cultural phenomena in lo-
cal detail/context in order to under-
stand their historical development
16. cultural Materialism
, UCLA Anthro 3 Final Review (Weeks 0-10)UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
-material conditions of existence de-
termine social relations that, in turn,
are reflected and reinforced by ideas
and beliefs
17. stucturalism -culture expresses universal human
need to organize the world through
categoris and symbols
18. Symbolic Anthropology -study of how people make
and communicate meaning through
symbols
-examine symbols in their social and
cultural context
19. Interpretive Anthropology -approaches culture as texts, analyz-
ing symbols and meanings in culural
and historical context
-how people interpret their own lives
20. Cultural Appropriation Importance of symbols and cultural
production, need to understand his-
torical context of symbol
21. Life cycle divison of life course into meaningful
segments/stages
-stages not always obvious
ex: maasi
22. social reproduction -processes by which a society repro-
duces itself over time
-reproduction not just at an individ-
ual level
