Ethnography
What is an ethnography?
A book, documentary, or any other text that studies a specific culture.
Linguistic anthropology refers to what?
The study of language
What do archaeologists do?
Dig up the physical remains of past cultures and studies them.
What is a school of thought?
A set of ideas held by a group of people
Which nationality believes it is arrogant to smile showing your teeth?
Japan
What is an ethnologist?
According to historical linguists, where do Romani Peoples originate from?
India
What is pre-history?
Civilizations with no written records that we have access to.
Which anthropologist thought it was possible to compare two cultures objectively?
Bronislaw Malinowski
Which nationality believes men holding hands is a symbol of friendship?
Saudi Arabia
What is the term for an anthropologist that lives with the community for months or years to understand their culture?
Participant Observation
Who created the Universal Grammar Theory?
Noam Chomsky
Which Anthropology professor made his students study landfill sites to get an understanding of their society's culture?
William Rathje
Which anthropologist created cultural relativism in response to cultural evolutionism?
Franz Boas
Which anthropologist studied a small village in Niger, Africa and noticed that their idea of beautiful women were curvy women?
Rebecca Popenoe
When a point is made using facts and data, anthropologists refer to this as _________________.
Objectivity
Which professionals do not agree with the Universal Grammar Theory?
Biologists
History
What did Ernestine Friedl's study about forager societies show us?
Power is tied to food
Which linguist groups languages into language trees?
Historical Linguists
When ethnologists reflect on their own biases and worldview this is known as ______________.
Reflexivity
What type of linguist studies body language in different cultural contexts?
Sociolinguists
What did Rathje discover about his society and plastic?
They were using/wasting more paper (40%) than plastic (3%).
What do postmodernists believe?
There is no such thing as a "universal truth" or fact
How do forensic anthropologists determine the age of a person by only examining their femur (thigh) bone?