Details Title: Anthropology Study Guide Description: Terms and notes Total Flash Cards: 24 Created: 09/13/2009 10:31:11		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Anthropology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Anthropology Definition Archaeology, physical/biological, linguistic, and cultural Term Archaeology Definition Prehistoric, historical, and ethnoarchaeology Term Physical/biological Definition Primatology, human evolution, contemporary variation (characteristics of current populations), and forensics Term Linguistics Definition Descriptive (sound systems and grammar); sociolinguistics; historical linguistics Term Culture Definition Learned, symbolic, shared, all-encompassing, integrated, patterned, dynamic, adaptive or maladaptive, coercive, shapes peoples' lives, diffusion Term Ethnocentric Definition Judge others by your own values, beliefs, and standards Term Cultural Relativism Definition Judge others by their values, beliefs, and standards Term Ethnographic Definition Anthropological method that generally involves living in a place for an extended period of time, participating in and observing daily life, and then writing about the culture or the place Term Mariam Makeba Definition South African singer; civil rights activist; sung "Pata Pata"; used Xhosa language in music Term Xhosa Definition Language and people of South Africa Term Franz Boas Definition 1858-1942 Term Margaret Mead Definition 1901-1978 Term Ruth Benedict Definition 1887-1948 Term Claire E. Sterk Definition Author of Tripping and Tricking; anthropologist from the Netherlands; works in a school of public health; primarily interested in women's health (sexual behavior) Term Edward Tylor Definition 1832-1917 Term Franz Boas Definition Father of American anthropology Term Franz Boas Definition Taught at Columbia University Term Margaret Mead Definition “Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or the civilization?” Term Margaret Mead Definition Coming of Age in Samoa (Sex in Samoa) Term Ruth Benedict Definition "Each culture chooses the great arc of human potentialities” Term Ruth Benedict Definition Kwakiutl, Dobu of New Guinea and Pueblo Indians Term Edward Tylor Definition Animism→polytheism→monotheism Term Edward Tylor Definition "Primitive culture- includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, laws, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society” Term Edward Tylor Definition Founder of social (cultural) anthropology