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Insiders Point of View
Get perspective from a member of the culture |
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| You must UNDERSTAND a culture, not accept it |
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| Comparison of data to develop theories about human behaviour |
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| Collection of data about specific peoples |
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| 4 Subfields of Anthropology |
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1) Archaeology
2)Physical
3) Linguistic
4) Cultural |
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| To look at the BIG picture |
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| Take our point of view to understand patterns; get scientific explanations |
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| Institutions, rules, structures, law, police... etc |
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| Values, beliefs, interpretations |
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| When one nation dominates another, through occupation |
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| The study of ANthropology through other people's works... Not going into the field |
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| The study of humans as biological organisms |
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| The study of fossil remains with the goal of constructing human biological evolution |
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| The study of non-human primates, their biology, adaptation and social behaviour |
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| A field of applied anthropology... specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes |
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| The study of material remains to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past |
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| Society that contains several distinct cultures and subcultures |
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| The process that transmits a society's culture from one generation to the next |
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| 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? |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| 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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6-4.4 Million years ago
East Africa |
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4.4 million years ago
Chimp - like
Walked up right
Ethiopia |
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7-6 Million years ago
North. Chad
Small brain, like ape
Human-like face
Probably walked upright |
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6 Million Years ago
Unknown if Bipedal
similar dentation to Australopithecus |
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| Descendants of Ardipthecus |
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2.5- 1.5 mill years. First Homos
Larger brains, tooth size reduction
Meaning "Handy Man"
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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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| Some scientists refer to the Asian Homo Erectus species as this. Similar to Homo Erectus |
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| Homo Heidelbergensis (Homo Sapiens) |
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800 000 - 120 000
Ethiopia, Steinheim, Swanscombe
Debate if ones from Europe and Africa are Homo Sapiens |
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125000 to 30 000 years ago
Modern brains, differnet faces, muscular |
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| Upper Paleolithic Peoples |
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| First People of Modern appearance, lived in last part of old stone age |
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| Which Sense Organs does a primate have? |
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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? |
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a) Larger capacities related to visual acuity
b) balance |
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| What type of dentition does a primate have? |
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| What is the skeletal anatomy of a primate? |
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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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| The study of the production, transmission and reception of speech sounds |
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| The smallest classes of sound that make a difference in meaning (pit, bit) |
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| The smalles units of sound that carry meaning |
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| A sound that can only occur in combination with another sound... like s |
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| Morpheme that can occur unattached in a language |
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| Method used to identify the syntactic units of a language. |
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| The rules or principles of phrase and sentence making |
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| The entire formal structure of a language consisting of all observations about the morphemes and syntax |
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| The parts of speech or categories of words that work the same way in any sentence |
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