ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trobriand Islands, Cultural Relativism, Unilineality
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Anthropology: study of humankind; study of human beings, past and present. Culture shock: - disorientation/panic that develops in people living in an unfamiliar society. Archaeology: - concerned with social process, how society has changed through time. Cultural relativism (boas): - understanding another culture in its own terms, so that it appears to be coherent and meaningful. Physical anthropology: - how human beings evolved through time. The physical properties of human beings, how we are similar to our closest living ancestors. Patterns of behaviour characteristics of a given society, social patterns. The knowledge, belief, morals and other capabilities and habits acquired by human beings as a member of a given society. Cultural anthropology: - comparative study of cultures and societies. Holistic: - belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole. Concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts.
