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| Arranged in order of time. |
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| A particular point of view. |
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| The study of language and its relation to culture. |
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| The study of people's present day language to learn about their past. |
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| Universal Unilineal Evolution |
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Dealing with evolution
(going from simple to more complex)
Evolution of Society |
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The study of a culture.
Describing a culture. |
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- Comparative study of cultures.
- Comparisons & Theory
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When two cultures come together for the first time they clash.
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Can be violent or peaceful.Clash because eventually there will be change, and, in effect, create ripples ("Ripple Effect").
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Change can be great or small.
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- Indigenous people of New Zealand.
- Kept and preserved human heads as trophies by smoking them.
- Came to New Zealand from Tahiti.
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Anthropology
- Physical/Biological
- Linguistics
- Archeology
- Cultural
- Applied Anthropology
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- The scientific study of humankind.
- Anything to do with human beings is of interest to anthropologists.
- Eclectic Discipline.
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| The study of material objects in order to describe and explain human behavior. |
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Use Anthropological knowledge and methods to improve society. |
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- Basic assumption that no part can be understood apart from the whole.
- Cultures are systems - parts of the culture cannot work without the whole.
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| Living among the people and culture you are studying. |
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| The tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others. |
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| [image] The attempt to be objective. Attempting to view a pattern or custom as it works (functions) in the society in which you find it. |
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| People who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. |
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- CUSTOM / PRACTICE
- Where a man experiences pain at childbirth. More in a culture where all the experience this.
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| The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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- Prohitibion of sexual intercourse for a new mother after the birth of a baby. Usually for 2 to 3 years.
- This is important in some cultures so that the mother can nurse her baby for first 2 - 3 years to give them the protein they need.
- Usually among protein deficient cultures.
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| The passing of behaviors from one generation to another among non-human primates. |
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- ENCODING
- The process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations.
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| Major culture changes that occur as a result of prolonged contact between societies. |
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- The relatively wealthy industrialized countries that share a commitment to varying forms of democratic political institutions and developed market economies.
- US, Canada, W. Europe, Australia, New Zealand & Japan.
- Capitalism
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- During the Cold War, the group of countries, including the Soviet Union and its then E. European allies that shared a commitment to centrally planned economies.
- (Asia)
- Communism
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| Developing nations with no superpower. |
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- Indigenous peoples.
- Population is increasing, not decreasing.
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| The killing of an infant or child. |
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| the lifelong process in which people learn the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture. |
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| Creating something that has never been before. |
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| Improving upon something that is already in place. |
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| The process by which cultural elements are borrowed from another's society and imcorporated into the culture of the recipient group. |
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| the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets |
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| When cultures are disrupted by contact with a dominant society new sects and cults are formed. |
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| The increased dependence of most of the world on commercial exchange. |
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| The process of cultural and socioeconomic change whereby developing societies acquire some of the characteristics of western industrialized societies. |
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| A millennial movement, characteristic of Melanesia, marked by the expectation that Western material goods ("cargo" in Pidgin) will be received by supernatural means, generally accompanied by the return of the spirits of the dead |
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| A indigenous person who enters an altered state of consciousness --at will-- to contact and utilize ordinarily hidden reality in order to acquire knowledge, power, and to help others. |
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| The acceptance or co-existence of different cultures. |
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| Allowing small societies to become successful ethnic minorities. |
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AUSTRALIAN/ABORIGINES
Live on 2 islands N of Australia, Bathurst & Melville
Hunters and Gatherers
"Baby Futures" |
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Did not allow sex. Thought it would distract from g-d and their creativity.
Died Out |
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- Came from Switzerland
- Community Farmers who do not reject modern technology
- Lots of kids
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- Seneca Indians
- Lake Erie & Ontario
- Losing land & rapid culture change
- Christian & Indian traditions
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Pilot
- Cargo Cult believed that he will comoe back with an airplane loaded with everything they ever wanted.
- Headman has direct communication with John
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- New Guinea
- Collect money to bring LBJ's body to New Guinea.
- Cargo cult
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