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The Culture Concept
19th Century Anthropology
20th Century Anthropology
100

The study of humankind, in its broadest terms.

Anthropology

100
He is considered the "father" of anthropology.

E.B. Tylor

100
What is the "insider's perspective" known as?

Emic perspective

100

Name the discredited theory popular in the 19th century in anthropology that suggested societies evolved from stages from simple to advanced.

Cultural evolutionism

100

The tendency to view one's own culture as most important and correct and as the stick by which to measure all other cultures.

Ethnocentrism

200

The cultural study of living peoples.

Cultural anthropology

200

He is considered the "father" of American anthropology.

Franz Boas

200

What is the "outsider's perspective" known as?

Etic perspective

200

What term refers to 19th century anthropologists based on where they did the majority of their work?

"Armchair" anthropologists

200

The idea that we should seek to understand another person's beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their own culture and not our own; i.e., cultures should not be compared to one another, but rather understood on their own terms.

Cultural relativism

300

The study of language and its cultural context, including how language is used to create and maintain social relations.

Linguistic anthropology

300

The most-cited social scientist of the twentieth century, known for his theories on power.

Michel Foucault

300

The process of learning the characteristics and expectations of a culture or group, such that those characteristics and expectations seem "normal" to members.

Enculturation

300

What is an anthropologist that compares human cultures known as?

An ethnologist.

300

The process of critical self-reflection on one's biases, theoretical predispositions, preferences, and so forth.

Reflexivity
400

The study of past humans and cultures through materials remains, involving excavation, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts, soils, and cultural processes.

Archaeology

400

His "cultural evolution" model adapted John Lubbock's 3-stage system and has been discredited by contemporary anthropologists. 

Lewis Henry Morgan

400

"Culture, or civilization, is that ____________ which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities and habits..."

Complex whole

400

What are the three problematic assumptions associated with 19th century cultural evolutionism?

1. Assumes universal states with similar developments

2. Assumes that entire societies represent earlier vestiges of human cultural development

3. Assumes a Eurocentric perspective

400

The belief that moral values, beliefs, and ideas are culturally specific and cannot be judged by anyone who is not a member of that culture

Moral relativism

500

The study of human evolution, biological variation, and adaptability to environmental conditions.

Biological anthropology

500
Name the applied medical anthropologist who founded Partners in Health and focused his career on health inequities in Haiti.

Paul Farmer

500

"...capabilities and habits _______ by [people] as a member of society."

Acquired

500

Why is it incorrect to argue that cultures "evolve?" 

This is a misapplication of Darwinian principles of evolution, i.e., cultures are not biological organisms subject to natural selection.

500

The ability to induce behavior in others by means of charisma, coercion, or the use or threat of physical violence

Power

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