ANTH101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 90 pages long!)

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH101
• Professor: Smiley- Robinson Karen

Document Summary

Anthropology: biological, cultural, archaeology, linguistics, applied, medical, developmental, urban. Investigating culture: biology influences culture, but society constructs culture. Intense period of globalization in which anthropology developed: new nation, beginning of colonial period. What is culture: highly symbolic: abstract and material intermingle to reinforce group unity. Everything has different meaning to understand the world around us: all encompassing guideli(cid:374)es for so(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d (cid:862)appropriate(cid:863) (cid:449)orld(cid:448)ie(cid:449)s, enculturation learning, teaching, creating culture is an ongoing negotiated and contested set of processes. =worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas within and across national borders. Franz boas (1858-1942: professor at columbia university, father of american anthropology (four-fields approach) Idea of cultural relativism all cultures are equal. Rejecting culturally biased theory and the professionalization of social scientific data- I(cid:373)porta(cid:374)(cid:272)e of field(cid:449)ork (cid:862)argo(cid:374)auts of the wester(cid:374) pa(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)(cid:863) Julian steward ethnographic fieldwork took a new turn with the publication of the.