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| Ethnographic field methods |
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Armchair anthropologist.
Book- Primitive Culture.
Defined Culture.
Unilinear Evolution |
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Father of American Anthropology
founded anthro program at colombia |
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Bali cock fights.
acknowledges and explored the inate desire of humanity |
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Theory of Evolution.
selection occurs with traits already in the environment.
sketch of tree of life. |
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revolutionized the study of primates.
set new standards for the study of animal behavior |
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| Wharf Hypothesis- we only know the world in terms of our language |
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| the processes by which organisms cope with environmental fores and stresses |
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| Field work inside a culture |
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| cross cultural comparison. The comparitive study of ethnographic data, society, and culture. |
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prehistory and history of a place
physical environment
family life
language
religion |
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| Four Subfields of Anthropology |
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Archeology
Sociocultural
biological
linguistic |
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| Archaeological Anthropology |
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| the study of human behavior and cultural patterns and processes through the cultures material remains |
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| The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. |
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| the descriptive, comparative, and historical study of language and of linguistic similarities and differences in time, space, and society. |
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| The study of human biological variation in time and space. includes evolution, genetics, growth and development, and primatology |
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| the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social probems |
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| the accelerating interdependance of nations in a world system linked economicaly and through mass media and modern transportation systems |
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identification with and feeling part of an
ethnic group and exclusion from other certain groups because of this affiliation |
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| an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis |
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| a group's system of economic production |
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| pedestrian, equestrian, aquatic |
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| foraging, horticulture, cultivation, pastorialism, industrialism |
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| 4 kinds of political organization |
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| band, tribe, chiefdom, and state |
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| based on horticulture or pastoralism. socioeconomic stratification and centralized rule are absent in tribes and there is no means of enforcing political decisions |
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| sociopolitical organization based on central government and socioeconomic stratification a division of society into classes |
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| form of sociopolitical organization intermediate between the tribe and the state; kin based with differential access to resources and a permanent political structure |
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| principal that characterized exchanges between closely related individuals. as social distance increases, reciprocity becomes balanced and finally negative |
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| basic unit of social organization among foragers. a band includes fewer than 100 people; it often splits up seasonally. |
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| non industrialized systems of plant cultivation characterized by continuous and intensive use of land and labor. |
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| non industrial system of plant cultivation in which plots lie fallow for varying lengths of times |
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| the study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and facial expressiongs |
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| social status that comes through talents, choices, actions, and accomplishments rather than ascription |
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| social status that people have little or no choice about occupying |
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| a member of the taxonomic family that includes humans and the african apes and their immediate ancestors |
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| a member of the human lineage after its split from ancestral chimps. used to describe all human species that ever have existed, including extinct ones, and excluding chimps and gorillas. |
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