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| branch of science dealing with the origins, development and history of human culture |
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| Cultural anhro's big questions |
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| Why do people differ in their beliefs and behaviors? How do people judge the beliefs and behaviors of others? Is it possible to see the world through eyes of others? How can the meanings that others find in experience be interpreted and described? What can learning about other peoples tell us about ourselves? |
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| cultural, linguistic, archaelogical, biological, applied |
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| all humans have same minds and bodies, same basic equipment, more significant than differences |
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| What two primary qualities define culture? |
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| anthropologists understanding other cultures |
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| fieldwork - participant observation, surveys, interviews |
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| our beliefs and behaviors are right and true while others are wrong or misguided |
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| being involved and living in culture rather then simply observing |
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| the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture |
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| idea that it is impossible to make moral judgments about the beliefs ond behaviors of others |
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| insufficient evidence to come to a belief about evidence |
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| how language shapes world view through vocab, style and grammar |
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| tangible thing or story to represent intangible idea or quality |
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| any invented story, idea or concept |
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| same events with different interpretations from different people |
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| seeing only what you want |
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| rationalizing to support beliefs |
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| tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true |
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| not allowing evidence that contradicts a cherished belief |
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| groups 10-40, related bilaterally through both parents, brother and sister relationship most important |
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| patrilineal, each male related to dead just as much as live, males most important, women have to marry a man to mean anything |
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| matrilineage - men related through the female line, eldest male of highest matrileage is chief of village (40-400), man's wife and children cannot be members of his dala |
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| a class of prohibitions, both formal and informal, stated and unstated, against incest |
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| father, mother, children and adopted |
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| societies that emphasize their tied to their mother/father |
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| marriage where couple lives with mother/father's parents |
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| the female/male head of a family, tribe |
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| marry within clan/marry outside of clan |
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| groom has to come work for parents of wife |
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| wife's mother and maternal uncle bring yams to couple. grooms father and maternal uncle collect money and goods to give to wifes father and kin |
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| all property and wealth of the wifes sent to grooms house before marriage |
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| polygyny - men more than one wife, polyandry - women more than one husband |
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| oun cattle, be generous, autonomous, independent, capable of defending homestead and honor, demonstrate bravery in cattle raids, circumcision |
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| gang rape, harassment, abuse |
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| gift exchange - give more than you are given |
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| giving and recieving of gifts |
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| no race, only others have race |
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| inherent things that come with identity |
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| goods that carrry no special meaning |
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