Chapter 1
What is the comparative study of human socitey and culture?
What is anthropology?
What are the two main research methods anthropologists use?
What are Ethnography and Participant Observation?
A good theory should explain and ultimately predict what?
What are relationships?
What is the process of using resources naturally available?
What is foraging?
What is social mobility?
The ability of a person to move between classes in a stratified society.
What are the four main fields of anthropology?
What is Cultural, Archaeology, Physical, and Linguistic.
What are the EMIC and ETIC perspectives?
EMIC is the perspective of an insider within a culture, while ETIC is the perspective of an outsider of the culture.
Something that stands for something else.
What is a Symbol?
What is the maximum population size a environment can support?
What is carrying capacity?
What is functionalism?
How functions play a certain role in maintaininga cultural system.
There are four main fields in anthropology, what is the contested fifth field?
What is Applied Anthropology.
What do indigenous native anthropologists study?
What is their own culture?
Is culture learned or are we born with it?
Culture is learned.
Slash and burn agriculture is an example of what substinence strategy?
What is horticulture?
What are some some things that can define a stratified society?
Wealth, class, and power.
What is the practice of examining how one's own beliefs affect anthropological research?
What is Reflexivity?
What is an ethographic database that includes descriptions of more than 300 cultures?
What are the Human Relations Area files?
Which term refers to the ability to change behavior in response to the environment?
What is plasticity?
What are some ways that humans increase the carrying capacity of the environment?
Irrigation and crop rotation
What are the tiers to the Hindu caste system?
Brahmas, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, and Dalits.
Reggae music in a globalized world is an example of what?
Cultural hybridity
Which anthropologist is cited in Brown v Board?
Who is Franz Boas?
What did unilinear evolutionists believe?
There are stages from privitism, to savagery, to civilization?
What would the Melonisian Big Man and NorthWestern Natives during potlutch do with their surplus wealth.
They would distribute it.
What is the main class theory that argues that stratification is necessary and beneficial?
Davis-Moore Thesis