ANTH 195- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)
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ANTH 195
Final EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
What is Anthropology? What is Culture?
• Margaret Mead- most well-known (American) Cultural Anthropologist
Anthropology
• Broad
• Global
• Time depth
Holistic Perspective
• Assumption that any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects, so that no
dimension of culture can be understood in isolation
• Example: Marriage
o Family life
o Economic forces
o Political leadership
o Relationship between sexes
Comparative
• To make the strange familiar
• The familiar strange
• Commitment to non-elites (community)
Relativistic
• Multiple ways of understanding and living in the world that are at once plausible and
arbitrary
• No one culture/norms are inferior/ superior
Field-based discipline
• Research (lived)
• Create own data sets
Culture concept
• Culture: sets of learned behavior and ideas that human being acquired as members of
society
Archeology
• Study of people of the past through examining material remains
• Before writeen language
Historical
• More recent past
Biological
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• Human variation
• Past and present
• Adaptation and change
Lingusitic
• Form of symbolic communication
• Carrier of information
• Language central to culture
• Closet to cultural
Cultural
• How they vary
• How that are similar
Tylor (1870s)
• Complex whole
• Any capabilities and habits acquired by man
• Before only English white men
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