ANTH 1102 Midterm: Anthropology Test 1 Complete Study Guide
18 Nov 2015
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Confirmation bias: the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one"s existing beliefs or theories. (gathering information or data selectively) Anthropology: (defn given on the first day): the study of human diversity and changes in what it means to be human across space and time. It is the study of human nature, society, and the past and our immediate ancestors. Ethnocentrism: judging other cultural ideas by using your own culture to form a basis for a description. Cultural relativism: it is not moral, but methodological. it is both adaptive and maladaptive. Ethnography: study of culture in a specific location, writing about people. (emic vs. etic: perspective by the people, or how people think vs. going to the group and deciding for yourself what is important). Participant observation- taking part in community life as it is studied. Free lists & pile sorts: free listing is one of several structured interviewing techniques designed to elicit systematic data about a cultural domain.
