People
She immersed herself in the life of Inuit people in the
central Canadian arctic territory of Nunavut
What is Jean Briggs?
the idea that we should seek to understand another person’s beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their own culture and not our own.
What is Cultural Relativism?
some university anthropology departments mirror the British social anthropology model by combining sociology and anthropology
What is Canada?
anything that serves to refer to something else, but has a meaning that cannot be guessed
What is Symbol?
The comparative study of cultural ideas about wellness, illness, and healing.
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What is Ethnomedicine?
One of the first examples of someone who attempted to systematically study and document cultural differences
What is Zhang Qian?
reasoning from the general to the specific
What is deductive?
a Polish anthropologist became stranded here.
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What is Trobriand Islands?
Human communication is
What is Open System?
An illness recognized only within a specific culture.
Culture-bound syndrome
In the 1950"s, he introduced the idea of cultural performances.
Who is Milton Singer?
the tendency to view one’s own culture as most important and correct and as the stick by which to measure all other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
The Yanomami territory is located in the amazon between these two South American countries.
What is Brazil and Venezuela?
Linguist Noam Chomsky proposed that all languages share the properties of what he called
What is Universal Grammar?
Traits that decrease the capacity of individuals to survive and reproduce.
What is Maladaptive?
He contemplated the origins of society itself, proposing that people historically had lived in relative isolation
Who is John Locke?
It is the process of learning the characteristics and expectations of a culture or group.
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What is Enculturation?
The Garbage Project, which began in the 1970s, is an example of a historic archaeological project
What is Tucson, Arizona?
the child will no longer be biologically capable of attaining native fluency in any language
What is Critical Age Range Hypothesis?
A person who specializes contacting the world of spirits.
What is a Shaman?
The historian that wrote " when one looks for different things, one sees different things.
Who is Eugen Weber?
biological anthropologists who study ancient human relatives
What is Paleoanthropologist?
It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
What is Haiti?
feature of human language is called
What is arbitrariness?
Diseases that have origins in animals and are transmitted to humans.
What is Zoonotic?