ucsp quiz

• anthropology - study of humans
• Biological focus - inquires about genetic composition
• social focus - inquires about human behavior
• Archaeology - examines remains of ancient
• cultural anthropology- study of a society’s culture through their belie system
• linguistic anthropology- examines language of a group
• applied anthropology- solve contemporary prob through the application of theories
• physical anthropology- development of humans and their contemporary variation
• Tristes Tropiques - classic studies of anthropology
• Claude levi-strauss - french anthropologist who made memoir
• Nancy scheper-hughes - professor of anthropology at university of california
• Participant observation method - entails the participation of the researchers on the daily practices and ritual of the group being studied
• Levi—Strauss and Scheper-Hughes - they are both anthropologist that stayed in the field for more 2 years and lived in the communities that they were documenting
• culture - something ethnic; some people think of it as an all-encompassing term that separates human from the rest of animal kingdom
• culture is everything - what a person has, does, and thinks as part of society
• culture is everything - implies all of a person's belief system, set of behaviors, and material possessions
• material - all tangible and visible part of culture
• nonmaterial - intangible parts of culture
• culture is learned - set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices that an individual learns through his/her fam, sch, church, and other social institutions
• enculturation - process of learning your own culture
• acculturation - due to constant interaction between societies, culture can be modified desirable traits from other cultures
• deculturation - when the culture of the older generation comes into conflict w/ the needs and realities of the younger generation
• deculturation - reason for the culture has been lost and even the cultural trait itself in the process of being forgotten
• culture is shared - set of behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that a person possesses is a of a greater collection of values and ideas that is communally owned and practiced by members of society
• culture is shared intergenratonally
• culture affects biology - humans are born into cultures that have values on beauty and body
• culture affects biology - they alter their bodies to fit into the physiological norms that is dictated by culture
• mursi tribe of ethiopia in Africa - wears lip plates as a sign of beauty
• foot binding - most popular traditions in china that ensures their potential for good marriage
• culture is adaptive - culture is a tool of survival that humans use in response to the pressures of their environment
• inuits of artic region - well-known for building igloos during fishing and haunting expeditions. during summer, they use tupiqs, w/c are tents made of animal skin, as their temporary homes
• culture is maldaptive - culture can also cause problems for the people who subscribe to it
• culture changes - culture is never static
• theories - are established perspectives that are eesential in shaping an analysis abt a particular issue
• cultural evolutionism - all cultures undergo the same development stages in the same order
• diffusionism - all societies change as a result of cultural borrowing from one another
• historicism - each culture is unique and must be studied in its own context
• psychological anthropology - personality is largely seen to be the result f learning culture
• functionalism - society is thought to be like biological organism w/ all of the parts interconnected existing
• neo-evolution - culture is said to be shaped by environment and technological conditions