ANTH 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Global Warming, Morpheme, Enculturation

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 260
• Professor: getrich

Document Summary

4 subfields: physical (biological): study humans from bio perspective esp. evolution, archaeology: study human past through excavation & artifacts, linguistic: study of language in past & present, sociocultural: study of everyday lives (behavior, beliefs & institutions) Umd specialty fields health, environment & heritage. Holism: commitment to consider full scope of life (culture, bio, & history) as opposed to constituent pieces. Ethnocentrism: belief in the superiority of one"s own culture & using one"s culture as a base to compare to others. Cultural relativism: understanding another culture using one"s own as a contextual reference but not to make judgments. Ethnography: account of a community/culture & is based on fieldwork. Globalization: intensification of interactions, movement of people & goods across borders. Time-space compression: innovation of communication changing the way we think about distance and time. Flexible accumulation: increasingly flexible strategies to accumulate profits. Uneven development: unequal distribution of the benefits of globalization. Climate change: global warming produced by high concentrations of greenhouse gases.