Anthropology Quiz 1
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- What is Archaeology?
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Studying way of life that no longer exists.
-pre-historic pasts of social systems that no longer exist and have no record.
-goal is to have an understanding of a patterned way of life.
- What is enculturation?
- The process of acquiring of your own native culture.
- What is Physical Anthropology?
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Deals with Homosapiens as a physical entity-development of sapiens.
-looks at fossils.
-concerned with primates-great apes.
-understanding of learning behaviors of primates as well as physical development of them.
- What is ethnography?
- The study of a culture-the end result.
- What is Holism?
- All encompassing, all at once study of a culture.
- What are the four sub-divisions of Anthropology?
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1. Cultural Anthropology.
2. Physical Anthropology.
3. Archaeology.
4. Linguistics. - What do Anthropologists look for?
- Large Scale Patterns-Repetition.
- What is Cultural Anthropology?
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The complete pattern of life.
-communities, human behavior-patterned.
-the daily life as transacted and ideal life that is theorized by the people of the community.
-want to see an entire community all at once.
-can tell how life is lived in a certain community.
- What is Ethos?
- The sense of what it feels like to live in a world.
- What is American Anthropology?
- It is holistic-broad, all encompassing, and all at once.