Basic Terms
The study of humans
Anthropology
Father of modern Anthropology
Franz Boas
The belief then every society evolves in ONE way towards ONE goal
Unilinear Evolution
The 4 branches of Anthropology
Cultural
Biological
Archaeology
Linguistic
This anthropologist is credited with the ideas of Relativism, Moral Relativism, and Cultural Relativism
Brown
What is culture?
1. Learned
2. Shared
3. Symbolic
4. Patterned
5. Dynamic
What is Kinship?
How we trace our relations to others / Who can you marry
Who is Malinowski?
Denounced Armchair Anthropology
Worked in depth in the Trobriand Islands
Define Social Darwinism
"survival of the fittest" evolution applied to human civilization.
Ethnocentrism is when...
The belief that one’s own culture is ‘correct’, ‘natural’, and superior to all others, and other groups should be judged by one’s own local standards
FOUND IN EVERY CULTURE
Napoleon Chagnon worked with ....
The Yanomami
What are the differences between matrilineal, patrilineal, and bilineal descent?
matrilineal - tracing decent through the mothers family
patrilineal - tracing decent through the fathers family
bilineal - tracing decent through both parents lineage
Define Emic vs Etic perspectives
Emic: Insider’s perspective -“How local people think”
Etic: Outsider’s perspective- Generalizations /interpretations of
behaviors/practices
Who is Charles Darwin?
Naturalist that defined our definition of natural selection
What is the Kula Ring?
a traditional ceremonial exchange system of the Trobriand Islanders and other groups in Papua New Guinea