ANTHROP 2200H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Directional Selection, Perspiration, Headache
19 Aug 2016
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Anthro 2200h exam 1 review: vocabulary, holism. 1. a. in order to understand part, must understand whole: comparison. 2. a. consider similarities and differences in as wide a range of human societies as possible before generalizing: relativism. 3. a. view subject only in terms of principles, background, frame of reference, history, etc. before characterizing subject: cultural relativism. 4. a. principle of regarding the beliefs, values, and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself: ethnocentrism. 5. a. perspective that ways, values or beliefs of one"s culture are superior to those of other cultures: variation. 7. a. change in population from one generation to next. 8. a. successful interaction between population and environment in order to survive and reproduce: cultural anthropology. Study all aspects of human behavior: ethnography. A description of lifeways (in one population: ethnology. Cross-cultural examination producing explanations, generalizations, and predictions (multiple populations: linguistics. Study of language in relation to its social context. Common social variables: gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status: archeology. Anything modified by human behavior: physical anthropology.
