[MODULE 1: CULTURE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY]

Evolutionary

________: understand humans have changed over time and continue to change (biology and culture)

Holism

________ is an approach that recognizes the complexity of issues /subjects- understanding all of the components that go into that subject /issue in order to fully comprehend it.

John locke

________ said humans get traits from nurture.

Culture is…

________ learned, shared, patterned, adaptive, and symbolic.

Culture

________ is what people do, think, make, and share.

Cultural constructs

________ are real for those that share them.

AAA definition

________: The entire database of knowledge, values, and traditional ways of viewing the world, which have been transmitted from one generation ahead to the next- non genetically, apart from DNA- through words, concepts, and symbols.

Anthropology

________ is the holistic, comparative, field- based, and evolutionary study of human beings in the past and present.

Humans

________ are extremely bias based on how they interpret an experience.

Dialectical relationship

________: biology and culture interact and change each other over time.

Ethnocentrism

________: practice of making value judgements about another culture from the perspective of ones own culture- the opinion that ones own way of life is natural and correct and is the only true way of doing things.

Enculturation

________: the process of learning how to be a member of a social group.

Individual schemata

________ (our worldviews) vary depending of a range of elements in their social context.

Emic

________: perspective from within a culture.

Etic

________: perspective from outside a culture.

Aggression

________: Removing cultural constraints reveals the violent beast within us (especially in men)

BIG IDEA

________: the anthropological perspective employs cultural relativism because anthropology values all human populations equally and approaches their ways of life as coherent and meaningful designs for living.

Cultural relativism

________: understanding another culture or society from its own perspective without imposing our own cultural values on it (opposite of ethnocentrism)

Race

________: Humans are divided into biological races (black, white, Asian, etc .)

human biology

Field- based: collect data about ________ /culture /beliefs /behaviors through field research through diverse data collection methods.

Culture

________ helps give meaning to our experiences of the world.

Holistic

________: combine theory /methods /findings from different fields with anthro theory /methods /findings- multi- disciplinary.

Culture

________: the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

Culture

________ is both a product of human actions and something that influences that action.

Culture

________ played a central role in human evolution.