ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Culture Shock, Genetic Drift, Ethnocentrism
28 Apr 2016
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Be sure to know the following terms and concepts for your first in-class exam (25% of final grade). Anthropology anthropology definition, fields (cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics), applied anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, primatology, paleoanthropology, artifact, excavation, descriptive and historical linguistics, forensic anthropology, museology, Culture and fieldwork culture, subculture, enculturation, holism, norms, values, collective understanding, classifications of informants, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism. Language language, asl, symbol, signal, phonemes, free and bound morphemes, paralanguage, kinesics, proxemics, indo-european language, dialect, creole, pidgin, code-switching, high- and low-status language. Genetics and evolution heredity, dna, genes, alleles, chromosomes, meiosis, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, heterozygous, homozygous, polygenetic inheritance, genetic population, mutation, genetic drift and gene flow, isolating mechanisms, evolution, natural selection. Know the main points and concepts illustrated by the videos: a conversation with koko, life on earth: the infinite variety, life on earth: a life in the trees, life on earth: the primates. Consult your course outline for the coursepack readings for weeks 1 through 6.
