Medical Anthropology
What is medical anthropology?
Medical anthropology studies human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation
True or false: Cultural relativism is a defunct mindset that argues in favor of valuing one's own culture over other cultures.
False! Cultural relativism places value on remembering one's own cultural biases and how they impact our work :)
True or false: Linguistic anthropology is an interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life
True!
Any object made, used, or modified by people. They are portable and can be removed from the site. Examples include tools, weapons, pottery, etc.
Who is Charles Darwin?
True or False: Medical Anthropology focuses in particular on healthcare disparities due to factors such as racism, eugenics, etc.
True!
The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards
What is ethnocentrism?
True or false: There are more than 150 Native languages currently spoken across the U.S.
True! However, many of these languages are under threat of extinction :(
The practice of recreating ancient traditions so that an archaeologist can test a hypothesis.
What is experimental archaeology?
Famous for writing "The Communist Manifesto"
Who is Karl Marx?
A disproven and problematic practice focused on making a genetically improved human race.
What is eugenics?
Something, verbal or nonverbal, that arbitrarily and by convention stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection
What is a symbol?
A language that no longer has any native speakers, nor secondary speakers
What is an extinct language?
The use of carbon-12 and carbon-14 to determine the age of organic matter.
What is carbon dating?
Famous for her work with social structure and family patterns of chimpanzees
Who is Jane Goodall?
What does medical anthropology focus on? Why study it?
(free response!)
What does cultural anthropology focus on? Why study it?
(open response!)
How is linguistic anthropology an aspect of anthropology? What does it focus on?
(Open response!)
The branch of applied archeology aimed at preserving sites threatened by dams, highways, and other projects. A common job for many archaeologists!
What is cultural resource management? (CRM)
Known for his work with anthropological symbols and their impact on culture, particularly ones associated with religion.
Who is Clifford Geertz?
What is a UConn Medical Anthropology class?
(any)
What is ethnography/an ethnography?
The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
As opposed to linguistic relativism, this school of thought believes that language limits and determines the way we see the world around us.
What is linguistic determinism?
The science or technique of dating events, environmental change, and archaeological artifacts by using the characteristic patterns of annual growth rings in timber and tree trunks.
What is dendrochronology?
Known as the father of American Anthropology
Who is Franz Boas?