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Chapters 1-4
First Quiz - Cultural Anthropology (Third Canadian Edition)
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2011

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EMIC
Definition

Insiders Point of View

Get perspective from a member of the culture

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Cultural Relativism
Definition
You must UNDERSTAND a culture, not accept it
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Ethnology
Definition
Comparison of data to develop theories about human behaviour
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Ethnography
Definition
Collection of data about specific peoples
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4 Subfields of Anthropology
Definition

1) Archaeology

2)Physical

3) Linguistic

4) Cultural

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Holistic
Definition
To look at the BIG picture
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ETIC
Definition
Take our point of view to understand patterns; get scientific explanations
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Socio-cultural system
Definition
Institutions, rules, structures, law, police... etc
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Ideational Systems
Definition
Values, beliefs, interpretations
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Colonialism
Definition
When one nation dominates another, through occupation
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Armchair Anthropology
Definition
The study of ANthropology through other people's works... Not going into the field
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Biological Anthropology
Definition
The study of humans as biological organisms
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Paleoanthropology
Definition
The study of fossil remains with the goal of constructing human biological evolution
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Primatology
Definition
The study of non-human primates, their biology, adaptation and social behaviour
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Forensic Anthropology
Definition
A field of applied anthropology... specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes
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Archaeology
Definition
The study of material remains to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past
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Pluralistic Society
Definition
Society that contains several distinct cultures and subcultures
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Enculturation
Definition
The process that transmits a society's culture from one generation to the next
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Microculture
Definition
A group of people that share common interests and or experiences and from which they take their identity
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When did human culture begin?
Definition
2.5 million years ago
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Adaptation
Definition
Both a process organisms go to acheive a beneficial adjustment to an available environment and the results of that process. The characteristics of an organism that fits them into the environmental conditions they are generally found in
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Natural Selection
Definition
Evolutionary mechanism by which individulas with characteristics best suited to a particular environment survive and reproduce with greater frequency than those without them.
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Stereoscopic colour vision
Definition
The ability to see the world in 3D of height, wifth and depth requires two eyes set next to each other on the same plane so that the visual feilds of two eyes overlap.
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First Hominins
Definition

6-4.4 Million years ago

East Africa

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Ardipthecus
Definition

4.4 million years ago

Chimp - like

Walked up right

Ethiopia

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Sahelanthropus
Definition

7-6 Million years ago

North. Chad

Small brain, like ape

Human-like face

Probably walked upright

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Orrorin Tugensis
Definition

6 Million Years ago

Unknown if Bipedal

similar dentation to Australopithecus

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Australopithecines
Definition
Descendants of Ardipthecus
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Homo Habilis
Definition

2.5- 1.5 mill years.  First Homos

Larger brains, tooth size reduction

Meaning "Handy Man"

 

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Homo Erectus
Definition

Species of Homo after Homo Habilis

2 Mill years ago

Some only refer to the ones from Africa as erecutus, others include Asian ones, as well.

Large Brain

Large, muscular bodies

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Homo Ergaster
Definition
Some scientists refer to the Asian Homo Erectus species as this.  Similar to Homo Erectus
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Homo Heidelbergensis (Homo Sapiens)
Definition

800 000 - 120 000

Ethiopia, Steinheim, Swanscombe

Debate if ones from Europe and Africa are Homo Sapiens

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Homo Neanderthalensis
Definition

53 000 - 27000 Years ago

 

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Neanderthals
Definition

125000 to 30 000 years ago

Modern brains, differnet faces, muscular

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Upper Paleolithic Peoples
Definition
First People of Modern appearance, lived in last part of old stone age
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Which Sense Organs does a primate have?
Definition

A)     Stereoscopic Vision

B)      Fovea centrailis (able to focus eyes on one point)

C)      Touch 

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What kind of brain does a primate have?
Definition

a)      Larger capacities related to visual acuity

b)      balance

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What type of dentition does a primate have?
Definition
Smaller teeth, fewer
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What is the skeletal anatomy of a primate?
Definition

a)      Brachiation (limb structures, able to move in different directions)

b)      Small snouts (little muzzling)

c)       Pentadactyly (5 digits) w/ nails instead of claws

d)      Opposable thumbs

e)      Foramen magnum (connection of skull to spinal cord) (Upright posure)

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Phonetics
Definition
The study of the production, transmission and reception of speech sounds
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Phonemes
Definition
The smallest classes of sound that make a difference in meaning (pit, bit)
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Morphemes
Definition
The smalles units of sound that carry meaning
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Bound Morpheme
Definition
A sound that can only occur in combination with another sound... like s
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Free Morpheme
Definition
Morpheme that can occur unattached in a language
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Frama SUbstitution
Definition
Method used to identify the syntactic units of a language.  
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Syntax
Definition
The rules or principles of phrase and sentence making
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Grammar
Definition
The entire formal structure of a language consisting of all observations about the morphemes and syntax
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Form Classes
Definition
The parts of speech or categories of words that work the same way in any sentence
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