ANTHRCUL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Acculturation, Enculturation, Emic And Etic

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas H Chivens

Document Summary

What is ethnocentrism: tendency to view one"s own culture as superior and to use one"s own standards and values in judging outsiders. Race is a social construct not a biological one. Hominins: tribe that includes all human species that have ever lived; excludes chimps and gorillas (member of human lineage after its split from ancestral chimps, includes all human species that have ever existed, including the extinct ones. ) Hominin characteristics: bipedalism, brain size, tool use, teeth patterns: hominin evolution from ardipithecus to australopithecus. Characteristics of domestic animals: tended to become smaller and selected for useful/ manageable traits. There is more variation within a population then outside it. Cultural relativism: the idea that behavior should be evaluated not by outside standards but in the context in which it occurs, can"t judge a culture with your standard but look at them independent with their environments. Four costs of farming: more work, lower adult stature, lower quality foods, worse nutrition,