The study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings
The study of humans in all times and places
What is anthropology?
100
One custom of this culture is attending strecnocs and worshiping the egats.
What is the Nacirema?
100
Many examples of language across species have developed for this reason
What is prey, threats, or danger?
100
This perspective is viewing things from the broadest possible context to understand interconnections and interdependence.
What is holistic perspective?
100
the smallest units of sound that have meaning
What are morphemes?
200
Communication, empathy, thoughtfulness
What is "The Fieldworker's Toolkit"?
200
Anxiety provoked by being immersed in a foreign culture.
At worst, a complete loss of self.
What is culture shock?
200
John Bowlby's experiment when the child goes to the hospital is a demonstration of which theory.
What is Attachment Theory?
200
environment, infrastructure, social structure, superstructure
What is the "Model of Culture"?
200
the number of languages and the number of language families
What is 6,000 and 40?
300
The four sub-fields of anthropology
What are cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, physical or biological anthropology, and archaeology?
300
Negation of all horizons of significance
What is fragmentation?
300
A person of this culture was able to run 400 miles barefoot
What is the Tarahumara?
300
Belief that one's own cultural beliefs and practices are the only proper ones
What is ethnocentrism?
300
analyzing body language and movement
What is kinesics?
400
Anxiety provoked by being immersed in a foreign culture.
At worst, a complete loss of self.
What is culture shock?
400
Two examples of this statement:
"You have to be on TV to have a voice."
What are reality television and American Idol?
400
The four universal songs
What is praise (up down up down), stop (staccato), comfort (downward), question song (raising pitch)?
400
Suspending judgment to understand others in their own terms.
The antidote for ethnocentrism
What is cultural relativism?
400
Name two metaphors we live by.
What is
Your claims are indefensible.
I already shot down all of your points.
You are always attacking me.
That's why I always win.
Creating yourself or finding yourself.
500
Dr. Wesch used his experience of participating in a traditional dance in Papua New Guinea as an example of this.
What is participant observation?
500
Self-centered modes towards self fulfillment &
Negation of all horizons of significance (all of us have different meanings and values)
What are disengagement and fragmentation?
500
Four ways that helped humans survive on the open grasslands
What are singing, asking questions, working together, and running slowly?
500
"building roads" and "tying strings"
What is a gift economy?
500
Always knowing exactly the direction you are facing. (this is common in Papua New Guinea)