SOT
This school of thought believes that an anthropologist cannot compare two cultures because each culture has its own internal rules that must be accepted. Everyone sees other cultures through the lens of their culture.
Cultural Relativism
True or False: Polyandry is more common that polygyny
False
Social norms that have become formally inscribed at the state or federal level and can laws can result in formal punishment for violations, such as fines, incarceration, or even death.
Laws
What is our closest living relative?
Chimpanzees
What branch of anthropology involves the examination of human skeletal remains for law enforcement purposes?
Forensic anthropology
This SOT believes that every belief, action, or relationship in a culture functions to meet the needs of individuals.
Functionalism
True or False - Male Rites of passage are more common and often more traumatic.
True
A norm in society that is strictly forbidden.
Taboo
What famous anthropologist worked with and studied chimpanzees? Her findings showed that they have a highly developed social structure.
Jane Goodall
This branch of anthropology looks at language and language development
Linguistic Anthropology
This SOT states that materials or conditions within the environment (for example, climate, food supply, geography) influence how a culture develops, creating the ideas and ideology of a culture.
Cultural Materialism
The process by which economies, societies, and cultures become integrated through a worldwide network is referred to as:
Norms that are often referred to as "customs." They are standards of behavior that are socially approved but not morally significant.
Folkways
This famous Canadian anthropologist worked with orangutans. She found that they have a highly developed social community and that they occasionally kill one of their own community for meat.
Birute Galdikas
The study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains.
Archaeology
Franz Boas is associated with this SOT.
Cultural Relativism
This ROP means, "Running Around"
Rumspringa
Strict norms that control moral and ethical behaviour.
Mores
This is the most famous family of physical anthropologists.
The Leakey family
The study of primates
Primatology
This female anthropologist concluded that in forager societies, the amount of freedom women had was strongly tied to their contributions to the food supply.
Ernestine Friedl
What are the two goals are cultural anthropology?
Prevent ethnocentrism
Promote cultural relativism
The specific cultural expectations for how to behave in a given situation
Norms
What is the main question for physical anthropologists? How do they answer it?
Where did we come from?
Evolution vs Creationism
Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies
Cultural Universals