Study sets matching "anthropology"
assimilate
cremation
domesticate
folklore
v. To consume and incorporate; to become similar
n. The act of burning the dead
v. To make something suitable for being in a home
n. Traditional myths of a people transmitted orally
assimilate
v. To consume and incorporate; to become similar
cremation
n. The act of burning the dead
Lucy
Turkana Boy
Anthropology medico-legal (forensic)
Rites of passage
Found in Ethiopia in 1974 by Don johnson, part of Australopith…
This skeleton was found by the Leakey's, A nearly complete ske…
This feild of study helps agencies identify human remains. The…
A ceremony, ritual or event that marks a change in status. The…
Lucy
Found in Ethiopia in 1974 by Don johnson, part of Australopith…
Turkana Boy
This skeleton was found by the Leakey's, A nearly complete ske…
Ethic of Kinship
Consanguineal kin
Affinal kin
Fictive kin
A universal rule that you should be nice to your kinsman.... How…
Relatives by birth
Relatives by marriage
Relationship between non-kin based on the ethic of kinship
Ethic of Kinship
A universal rule that you should be nice to your kinsman.... How…
Consanguineal kin
Relatives by birth
matrilineal
patrilineal
descent
consanguines
descent system where group membership and inheritance pass thr…
descent system where group membership and inheritance pass thr…
the order and how individuals and family members feel and dete…
individuals related by blood
matrilineal
descent system where group membership and inheritance pass thr…
patrilineal
descent system where group membership and inheritance pass thr…
Culture as adaptation
Subsistence
Subsistence strategy
Basic subsistence strategies include:
Adapting to and utilizing the environment but the environment…
Sustaining oneself; obtaining food, clothing, shelter.
how people fulfill their material requirements, especially for…
Hunting and gathering (foraging). Horticulture (slash and burn…
Culture as adaptation
Adapting to and utilizing the environment but the environment…
Subsistence
Sustaining oneself; obtaining food, clothing, shelter.
Ethnography
Fieldwork
Participant Observation
Holism (Holistic Perspective)
Ethno=people graphy=write. Recorded descriptions of the custom…
An anthropologist's personal long-term experience with a speci…
research method in which anthropologists' fieldwork serve as t…
aims to get an encompassing and complete view of humanity or c…
Ethnography
Ethno=people graphy=write. Recorded descriptions of the custom…
Fieldwork
An anthropologist's personal long-term experience with a speci…
Anthropology
cultural relativism
culture shock
culture
The scientific and humanistic study of human being encompassin…
The idea that culture should be analyzed with reference to the…
Feelings of alienation and helplessness that result from rapid…
The learned behaviors and symbols that allow people to live in…
Anthropology
The scientific and humanistic study of human being encompassin…
cultural relativism
The idea that culture should be analyzed with reference to the…
Dowry
Adaptation
Culture
Culture Adaptation
A payment at the time of a woman's marriage that comes from he…
adjustments of organisms to their environment
social ideas, values, emotions and perseptions
complex of ideas and activities that allows people to survive…
Dowry
A payment at the time of a woman's marriage that comes from he…
Adaptation
adjustments of organisms to their environment
Anthropology (four types)
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology Anthropology
The study of humans. ... -Cultural... -Linguistic... -Archaeology... -Biol…
-study of the human behavior... -the concept of "culture"... -roots…
-effect of language on social life... -how language effects perce…
-study of ancient/recent human past through material culture... -…
Anthropology (four types)
The study of humans. ... -Cultural... -Linguistic... -Archaeology... -Biol…
Cultural Anthropology
-study of the human behavior... -the concept of "culture"... -roots…
Creationism
Evolution
Catastrophism
Natural selection
Those who explain where humans come from and why we look so di…
-The gradual development of something from simple to more comp…
Supports creationism. The believe that God destroyed everyone…
Organism that have been able to evolve in order to survive the…
Creationism
Those who explain where humans come from and why we look so di…
Evolution
-The gradual development of something from simple to more comp…
Osteology
Skeletal Functions (6)
Support
protection
the study of skeletal material.
1.Support... 2.Protection... 3.Function... 4.Red Blood Cell and Marrow…
support soft tissues
provides a hard armor shielding soft tissues
Osteology
the study of skeletal material.
Skeletal Functions (6)
1.Support... 2.Protection... 3.Function... 4.Red Blood Cell and Marrow…
cranial
nomadic
decline
flourished
of or relating to the skull or cranium. Ex. the helmet helps p…
roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or wi…
to become lower in amount or less in number. Ex. oil prices co…
was very successful; did very well. Ex. the group ______ in th…
cranial
of or relating to the skull or cranium. Ex. the helmet helps p…
nomadic
roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or wi…
Animatism-
Mana- Melanesians
Religious Specialists
Shamans
the belief that the world is animated by impersonal super powe…
a sacred impersonal force that can reside in people, animals,…
all human societies include individuals who guide and supervis…
skilled at contacting supernatural powers through altered stat…
Animatism-
the belief that the world is animated by impersonal super powe…
Mana- Melanesians
a sacred impersonal force that can reside in people, animals,…
Culture
Society
Ethnicity
Race
A societyse shred and socially transmitted ides values and bel…
Organized group that share a common culture, language and shar…
The expression of the set of culture ideas held by an ethnic g…
Based on physical features
Culture
A societyse shred and socially transmitted ides values and bel…
Society
Organized group that share a common culture, language and shar…
Evolution
Natural selection
Adaptation
Biocultural evolution
The change in frequency in a gene or trait in a population.
The change in frequency of certain traits in populations over…
A genetic, physiological, or behavioral trait. Ability to surv…
Long term interactions between biology and culture.... Changes ov…
Evolution
The change in frequency in a gene or trait in a population.
Natural selection
The change in frequency of certain traits in populations over…
Anthropology
4 basic specializations:
Biological:
Archaeology:
The study of humankind in all times and places
1. Cultural ... 2. Archaeology... 3. Linguistic ... 4. Biological
Is the study of humans as biological organisms and includes:…
Is the study of the human past by studying material remains le…
Anthropology
The study of humankind in all times and places
4 basic specializations:
1. Cultural ... 2. Archaeology... 3. Linguistic ... 4. Biological
Anthropology
Holistic
"Lucy"
Papua New Guinea
The comprehensive study of humans across space and through tim…
Whole, all of human existence
Found in Ethiopia, Africa. 3 million years old, named after a…
In Indonesia
Anthropology
The comprehensive study of humans across space and through tim…
Holistic
Whole, all of human existence
anthropology
holistic
hypothesis
cultural anthropology
the study of humans in all times and places
interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
one of the four branches of anthropology, studies people's cul…
anthropology
the study of humans in all times and places
holistic
interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.
Can be traced to the Renaissance, when…
Showed that U.S born children had diffe…
Categorized skulls into five racial typ…
Through research indicating that most g…
Loring Brace argued that the race concept:
Franz Boas
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
R.C. Lewontin found that human "races" have no taxonomic signi…
Can be traced to the Renaissance, when…
Loring Brace argued that the race concept:
Showed that U.S born children had diffe…
Franz Boas
Kinship
What are our ideas of kinship based on?
Types of Kin
Descent
the idea of being related to another individual or group rules…
Culture... Biology... Something else entirely?
Consanguineal: related by blood... Affinial: related by marriage…
tracing kinship relationships through parentage
Kinship
the idea of being related to another individual or group rules…
What are our ideas of kinship based on?
Culture... Biology... Something else entirely?
Agriculture
Anthropological theory
Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
Form of food production in which permanent cultiviation using…
Set of propositions about which aspects of culture are critica…
scientific ad humanistic study of human beings encompassing th…
Application of anthrological knowledge to the solution of huma…
Agriculture
Form of food production in which permanent cultiviation using…
Anthropological theory
Set of propositions about which aspects of culture are critica…
Microaggressions are
The example of the gay caveman
Transgender individuals in the United S…
An example of how the dominant messages…
brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral indignities
*all of these are correct:... -showed an individual with the sex…
*all of these questions are correct:... -family and community rej…
True
Microaggressions are
brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral indignities
The example of the gay caveman
*all of these are correct:... -showed an individual with the sex…