ANTH 1102 Midterm: Exam 1 Notes
30 Oct 2014
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Cultural, economical: comparing customs among cultures. Sociocultural analysis involving categories used by the local. Culture: that complex whole including knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom acquired by man as a member of society: not something you"re born with, culture is shared, symbolic. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge the customs of other societies by the standards of one"s own. Cultural relativism: the ability to view to belief and customs of other people within the context of their culture rather than one"s own culture. Subfields of anthropology: biology: the systematic study of humans past and present focusing on biology. Paleoanthropology human evolution as revealed by fossils. Human biology study of genetics, adaptation, gene structure, and inheritance. Forensics identification, analysis, and interpretation of human remains: archaeology: the study of tangible materials past and present artifacts. Garbologists study of garbage: linguistics: study of language structure, grammar, origin, evolution. Structural how language works mental ability to communicate. Social connection between language and social behavior.
