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-Study of human being from beginning to present.
-Explores the life ways of people. |
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| How people feed themselves. |
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| What they eat and eating rules. |
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| How they protect themselves from the elements. |
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| How they give meaning to their lives and the supernatural belief system. |
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| This is what you do with time and how you deal with space. |
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| Organization of Community |
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-Kinship
-Leadership
-Government |
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-Language
-Body Language
-Dance
-Music
-Theatre
-Visual Arts |
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| Energy Exchange w/ the Environment |
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| Adaption to the environment. |
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Change is in any and all parts of the culture. |
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-It is in our heads...What and how we think.
-How we behave and what we believe. |
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| Learned behaviors and symbols that allow ppl to live in groups including human adaption and ppl giving meaning to lives. |
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| Four Sub-Disciplines of Anthro |
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-Cultural: culture across time
-Linguistic: study of language and relationship to culture
-Archeology: reconstruction of past cultures based on material culture (ex. fabric, tools, etc.)
-Biological: Humans from biological perspective (ex. nutrition, otology, primatology) |
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•1799 he was found but escaped; he was found a second time. Captured might be a better word
•Shown in Paris
•Human but no humanity
•Sent to School for the deaf to be studied
•Had no language, no development of his senses, no ability to focus attention. He comforted himself by rocking
•Statue in San Seim, France |
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| Characteristics of ALL Cultures |
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-Consists of learning behaviors
-Uses language and symbols
-Patterned and integrated (has to be logical)
-Shared by members of the group
-Change
-Adaptive |
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-Learned while growing up in particular society
-Widely shared
-Profoundly affects the thoughts of the group
-Explains/is the source of differences b/w groups of ppl
-Socially learned
-Patterns of behavior (Not ind. behavior but regularities are bigger than ones behavior [ex. school, weddings]) |
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Food: tools, farming, domestication of plants and animals
Shelter: use of materials found in enviro. to make shelter or make natural formations such as caves.
Trial and Error |
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Adaptions are NOT taught to succeeding generations. |
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| Culture Change can be Caused By: |
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-Internal events
-External events
-Disease/Epidemics
-Climate change |
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| Traditional cultures change slowly or rapidly? |
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| Modern cultures change slowly or rapidly? |
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-New object, way of thinking, way of behaving.
-Involves human ingenuity and creativity
-Not all innovations are positive (telephones and cars) |
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Innovation can only be created w/ ppl of that culture group. |
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The spread of a cultural element from one culture to another.
(If item is proved useful its adopted) |
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| Process of accepting the diffused concept or idea by adopting. |
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| Shared ideas or rules about how people OUGHT to behave in specific situations and how ppl SHOULD act towards each other. |
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-Widespread agreement about standards of behavior
-Ppl will judge behavior according to the norm
-Dont follow them = negative reactions |
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| How can norms be constraining? |
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-Dress up for an occasion
-Gift giving
-Family obligation
-Tattoos
-Party |
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| We learn cultural norms as we grow. |
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-If we work hard we get success
-Responsible for own destiny
-Assumes level of playing field |
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| How are values essential to life? |
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-Freedom of speech
-Liberty
-Pursuit of happiness
-Religious Freedom |
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| Group w/in larger culture that shares different norms and values than those of dominate society. (ex. rappers, hippies, neo natzis, amish, etc) |
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| Belief that YOUR culture and life ways are natural and superior to all other way . |
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| Does not biologically exist. |
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Humans do NOT belong to one single race. |
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-Skin color
-Eye color
-Height |
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| Belief that there are ppl less than you b/c of genetics. |
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| Racialism (Systematic Racism) |
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| Diff. between races are biologically fixed w/ diff. moral, intellectual, and physical characteristics. |
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| Believed in biopsychological equality . |
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| Biopsychological Equality |
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| All humans have an equal capacity for culture. |
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-Franz Boaz
-Ppl life ways, values, etc. must be understood in terms of that culture
-Anthro. must not judge a culture until they understand logic of that culture first |
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POV of the insider.
-Trying to understand a culture as if you were born into it. Understand how to think and act like a native. |
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POV of outsider.
-Looking at a society in terms of concepts, categories, and rules from outsiders perspective
-Often not agreed with by culture |
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| When did anthropology become legit? |
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| Nineteenth century (1800s) by europeans and americans. |
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| Travel brought ppl such as: |
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-Missionaries
-Explorers
-Soldiers
-Govt. officials |
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| Anthro. stayed at home and interviewed untrained observers about experiences w/ inhabitants of places around the world. |
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-Lower, middle, upper savagery
-Lower, middle, upper barbarism
-Civilized |
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