Ethnography
What are the primary research methods of ethnologists?
Participant observation & interviews
What are the three branches of linguistic anthropology?
Historical, Structural and Sociolinguistics
Prehistoric archaeology involves studying who/what?
Civilizations with no written record
What is a School of Thought?
A set of ideas held by a goup of people
A policy that promotes and protects diversity in a culture by honouring multiple ethnicities, languages, religions, and cultural customs.
Multiculturalism
This ethnologist studied Samoan adolescent girls during the 1920's
Margaret Mead
This branch of linguistic anthropology studies how languages change over time.
Historical Linguistics
Historic archaeology differs from Prehistoric archaeology in that it involves studying civilizations with...
Records (written accounts) as well as archaeological findings.
What are the 5 schools of thought when studying culture?
Cultural Relativism, Cultural Materialism, Functional Theory, Feminist Anthropology, Postmodernism
Analyzing how teens use emoji's to understand how people use language in different scenarios can be tied to what specific field of cultural anthropology?
Sociolinguistics
This ethnologist questioned the findings of the ethnologist that wrote about Samoan adolescent girls in the 1920's
Derek Freeman
Young people in Scarborough use slang that blends Caribbean English, Somali, Tamil, and standard English. This is an example of what?
Diffusion
This type of archaeology involves analyzing human remains for identification.
Forensic
What is a criticism of functional theory?
It fails to acknowledge dysfunctions in society (social inequities like race, gender and class).
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When an ethnologist reflects on their own worldview, biases and how it impacts the culture you're studying, it is known as?
Reflexivity
Immigrant parents encourage their kids not to speak their first language (e.g., Tamil, Urdu, Mandarin) in public because of fear of discrimination — but they still use it at home is an example of what?
Acculturation
According to the Rathje Archaeological Study about garbage; what does this explain about human behaviour?
We do the exact opposite of what we claim
The belief that one culture was superior to all others- this is known as what?
Ethnocentric view/ethnocentrism
A solution to subjectivity when analyzing fieldwork in ethnology is....
Objectivity or reflexivity
What is the normalcy principle as shown in the Perfect Prison episode?
Creating a normal environment to ensure normal responses to the environment.
Who developed the Universal Grammar Theory?
Noam Chomsky
Why is it beneficial for archaeologists to study both documented history and physical artefacts?
To avoid a biased interpretation
What annual cultural practice did Bronislaw Malinowski observe that helped create the Functional Theory?
The Kula Ring Practice
Who studies forager societies and concluded that power is tied to food?
Ernestine Friedl