Anthropology of Sport Exam #1
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- Applied anthropology
- Problem solving; apply anthropological perspective to modern settings
- Culture
- The total way of life as a group of people that is learned & passed down from generation to generation
- Ethnocentrism
- The belief that one's own culture is the best & therefore the standard by which other cultures are consequently judged
- Norms
- Rules for behavior
- Deconstruction
- Culture is a text that can be read & interpreted in a variety of ways
- Conflict theory
- Human behavior can be understood by focusing on the differences within and between social groups
- Evolutionism
- Analysis & explanation of human behavior & culture is a matter of placing a culture or a cultural event into an evolutionary framework
- Archeology
- Study of material remains of earlier societies; excavations & analysis of physical remains
- Value
- Socially shared ideas
- Holistic perspective
- Knowing/accepting that any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects
- Cultural relativism
- A cultural system or any aspect of that system can only be evaluated on its own terms
- Physical anthropology
- Evolutionary origins of human species; study of human anatomy & its adaptability
- Functionalism
- Cultural phenomena are best understood in relationship to their roles in meeting individual human needs
- Cultural materialism
- Culture is best understood as addressing problems related to survival
- Anthropological linguistics
- Study of communication & human languages
- Subcultures
- Variations within a culture
- Ethnoscience
- Assume culture is knowledge & shared by members of a particular society
- Theory
- A way of approaching & analyzing human behavior
- Ethnology
- Comparison across cultural lines
- Structural functionalism
- Cultural pheomena are best understood in terms of their contributions to other parts or aspects of the social system
- Symbolic anthropology
- Based on the assumption that many group activities can be interpreted as symbolic messages about the social structure being studied
- Cultural anthropology
- Study of human behavior where the primary focus is culture
- Ethnography
- Describing a particular culture