What is the study of living human culture?
Example: Music, family, tradition, clothing, games
Cultural Anthropology
A simple folktale with a moral lesson embedded, often told to children with anthropomorphic animals. Ex. The Tortoise and the Hare.
What is a Fable
A portable object used, modified or made by humans
What is an artifact
A system of communication consisting of grammar, words, and sounds/units of meaning
What is language
A type of burial that is not typical of that specific culture or group.
What is a deviant burial
The assumption that one's own way of doing things is "correct", dismissing the practices of others as "wrong"
What is Ethnocentrism
Places like Atlantis, The Lost City of Gold El Dorado, or the Fountain of Youth are examples of this type of folklore
What is a legend
What are ecofacts
Patterned forms of communication that use sounds and movements to convey meaning: Used by animals
What are call systems
A social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association of a particular person, place, or thing
What is a Taboo.
What is ethnography
What are Fairytales
Non-portable artifacts; Examples > buildings, soil stains, architectural remains
What are features
What is dialect
In medical anthropology, the psychological experience of a patient while they are sick; Different from the physiological experience.
What is Illness
An object, idea, image, character, or figure that represents something else. In this case, some aspect of culture.
What is a symbol
A popular type of monster motif across many cultures, often used to keep children from wandering or staying up too late.
What is the "Child Devourer" or "Child Taker"
A detailed description recording the location where material remains are found; Tells the story of a site.
What is context
The study of how sociocultural context and norms shape language use and the effects of language on a society
A type of protective magic that uses objects or rituals ward off evil. Ex.) The evil eye or knocking on wood
What is Apotropaic magic
The effort to synthesize different approaches and investigations of culture into a single comprehensive interpretation: Ex.) The whole picture
What is Holism.
The term used in myths to describe the explanation of how the world came to be
What is Cosmogeny
Archaeologically, the Great Pyramid of Giza falls into the category of what?
What is a feature
In language structure, what is the term used to describe the patterns of word order used to form sentences and longer utterances in a language?
What is syntax
Which individual is your father's sister in this kinship diagram?
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