Chapter 1 & 2
Holistic Perspective is:
Understanding interconnection and interdependence
The sentence structure of language is
Syntax
The entire formal structure of a language
Grammar
patterned, repetitive experiences that are shared and easily understood by members of a particular culture (e.g., Christmas)
Schemas
In today's globalizing world, we most often find ________ societies.
Stratified
What aspect of Christmas interests the !Kung
Slaughtering an Ox
What was Miner's purpose of writing "Body Rituals of there Nacirema?"
To criticize the positivist approach
________ can be defined as the processes by which people organize and experience information that is primarily of sensory origin
Perception
examples of a typical instance, element, relation, or experience within a culturally relevant semantic domain
Prototypes
a ranked group within a hierarchically stratified society whose membership is defined primarily in terms of wealth, occupation, and/or access to power
Class
What field of study is associated with biological anthropology
Primatology, Paleoanthropology
The transmission, reception, and production of speech sounds
Phonetics
The smallest units of sound that make a difference in meaning
Phonemes
the gap between what we see and what we know
Illusion
Marriages within a group
Endogamy
How to the Nacirema view the body?
Diseased and Decaying
A particular, learned way of life specific to a group of people
Plural Culture
A culturally shared response to a sense other than the one being stimulated, such as smelling the odour of wet earth and sensing "greenness," is called ________.
Cultural Synaesthesia
the mental process by which human beings gain knowledge, and the “nexus of relations between the mind at work and the world in which it works.”
Cognition
What are the three branches of Songbun
1. Core class
2. Waivering Class
3. Hostile class
The mind and body as divided is known as
Dualism
is the ability to reproduce or imitate behaviour or information that has been learned
Reiteration
The ability of language speakers to make false statements or statements that violate convention is known as
Prevarication
mental tasks common to all humans without intellectual cognitive impairment
Elementary cognitive systems
a system of social identities negotiated situationally along a continuum of skin colours between white and black
Colourism