ANTH 1001 : Exam 1 Notes
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To be ethnocentric block the way of understanding when trying to understand a different culture: cultural relativism: the idea that every culture has merit within it"s own context, fieldwork: a time of data collection. Includes various types of activity, such as time spent in lab, interactions between cultural groups, hours of research, etc: the four subfields of anthropology. Biological anthropology: linguistics: the study of language (not the same as linguistic anthropology, sociocultural anthropology. Culture: a learned behavior that is distinct among groups of people it is passed down through generations and culture is subject to evolution and change. There are over 5000 different cultural groups as of today: archaeology: the study of the past based on the material remains of a culture. Set the standard for a 4 field (bicultural) perspective of anthropology. Professor at columbia university, and trained first generation of 4 field anthropologists: alex (ales) hrdlicka: The "great organizer: compiled collections studied human variation.
