Quiz 1 review

• Eurocentric


  The idea of culture includes a complex whole knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
• Christianity


  person's moral compass
• artifacts


  objects created by man
• Biological anthropology 


  human biology & evolution
• Archaeology


  study of past and material culture
• Language


  central role in defining who we are as humans
• Sapir Whorf Hypothesis


  Language not only reflects but can also shape how we think and act
• Communication


  Use of arbitrary symbols to impart meaning
• Cultural Anthropology


  Study of how people who share a common cultural system organize & shape the physical and social world around them
• Applied Anthropology


  Also called as practical anthropology, application of anthropology to human problems
• Holism


  Perspective that emphasizes the whole rather than just the parts
• Culture 


  A shared & negotiated system of meanings informed by knowledge that people learn and put into practice by interpreting experience & generating behavior
• Comparativism


  The search for similarities & differences between and among human beings in all of their biological and cultural complexities
• Meaning-making process of art

  Production > circulation > reception
• System


  A group of interacting or interrelated parts that operate in relation to one another
• Knowledge


  Process of learning & discovery
• Enculturation


  Process of learning culture passing of cultural knowledge
• Behavior


  Means to act or conduct oneself in a specified way