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• Participant observation is when researchers participate in activities with their subjects to gain insight into their culture.
• Ethnography involves observing people's behavior and recording it through field notes or audio/video recordings.
• anthropology: the study of human thought, behavior, and lifeways that are learned, shared, and passed on.
• List the three foundations of cultural anthropology: 1. cultural relativism 2. fieldwork 3. ethnography
• what are the 4 fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological, cultural, and linguistic
• What is culture?


  taken for granted rules, moralities, and behaviors that feel natural or normal
• Are all humans born without culture?

  True. All humans are born without culture, BUT we can acquire it.
• Symbols: object,word, or action that stands for something else
• what are the 5 features of culture: 1. learned 2. based on symbols 3. shared 4. integrated 5. dynamic
• eTic approach: a systematic analysis of a culture using SCIENTIFIC categories and an OUTSIDERS perspective.
• eMic approach: examines a society using concepts, categories, and behaviors that are MEANINGFUL to the members of that culture
• cultural relativism: the ability to understand a culture on its terms and not make judgments using the standards of one's own culture.
• Power: can be brute force, but also ideology that makes inequality seem normal, status quo
• fieldwork: firsthand research in a specific study community or research setting where the researcher can observe people’s behavior and have conversations or interviews with members of the community.
• cultural evolutionism: the idea that some cultures are more evolved than others.
• enculturation: teaching people what is culturally appropriate
• What are the three main themes made out of the film BabaKiueria?

  1. seeing culture and social order from a different perspective 2. the legacy of colonialism and legacy 3. thinking in a way as a journalist/anthropologist to help us better understand ones culture
• Structure: forces that are beyond a individual's control, influence behavior in predictable ways, or predetermine certain outcomes
• agency: free will, ability to choose to act in the face of structures
• what's an example of a structure?


  Following a maze as one should or following the norms and values of a culture
• what's an example of an agency?


  Not following the path the right way or making a "shortcut"
• Hegemony: dominance of one another over a group
• language: a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar
• what type of data collection did Prof. Hoelle use for his Amazon research?

  1. participation observation 2. interviews 3. surveys 4. fieldwork
• Communication: conveying meaningful messages from one person, animal, or insect to another
• what role does culture play in behavior?

  1. Etic and Emic 2. structure and agency 3. function and meaning 4. power and inequality
• what is cattle culture?

  the human-cattle interactions and the emergence of cattle cultures