Test One Review

Four subfields of Anthropology

   Archaeology- nvestigation of the culture, demography, and history of past populations through their     material and biological remains

    Biological / Physical Anthropology- Investigation of the evolution, adaptations, genetics, and     biological variation of humans and primates.

    Linguistics- Exploration of the nature, development and evolution of human language, as well as the

    cataloging and documenting of the thousands of languages spoken around the world.

    Cultural Anthropology- Exploration of cultural variation and how culture influences meaning,     perception, politics, history, and all other things human.

Anthropology as a holistic science

Defining elements of culture / other aspects of culture

Ideal vs. real culture

Be able to characterize the two MAJOR intellectual categories of cultural theories (the pendulum)

Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Historical Particularism

Cultural Ecology

Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

Cultural relativism / Moral relativism / Epistemological relativism

Ethnocentrism

Participant Observation

Thick vs Thin descriptions (Emic vs. Etic)

Qualitative methods

Quantitative methods

Experiments vs Comparative methods

Difficulty in using comparative method

Mixed methods*

Ethical Considerations of Anthropological Methods*

Confounder variables

Reverse causation

Confirmation bias

Phoneme

Morpheme (bound/free)

Syntax

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis*

Diglossia

Interaction of gender & language

Universal Grammar*

Paralanguage*

Pidgin vs Creole*

Goals and tips for Open communication

Privilege (What it is and what it isn’t)

Biological definitions of race

Major reasons humans can’t be divided into races

Nature of genetic variation across human groups

Race vs. Ethnicity

Understand all parts of the long definition of race provided in class

How does the social construction of race make it “real”?

Two major meanings of “racism”

De Facto Segregation

General conclusions surrounding causes or White-Black health disparities

Biological benefits & risks of light vs dark skin*

Assimilation / Multiculturalism*