Social Studies: ItCA Review

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The key to being a good Anthropologist…

is that you have to be a good observer

Anthropological language

A way of explaining cultures using detailed, clear descriptions so that one culture can understand another one

Instinct

animal behaviors that are done automatically.

Ethnocentrism

Is viewing and judging another’s culture through their own cultural lens

Learned behavior

humans’ other behaviors they learn through a culture. (Yes, humans also act through instinct)

Culture

A human group’s total way of life, including everything from its technology, beliefs, customs, rituals and more.

When Kofi Annan was a child, he would never wear earmuffs because he thought they were silly and unneeded. He was being…

Ethnocentric

Cultural challenge

A situation where two cultures encounter one another and don’t completely understand one another.