ANTHROP 1AB3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Zande People, Cultural Relativism, Matilda Coxe Stevenson
6 Feb 2020
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Archaeological evidence for religious belief in past societies. Definition: the study of humankind in all times and places, study culture past and present, study similarities and differences and why they exist. Interacting/living with people for a year or more: long-term fieldwork. Interest in prehistory: study prehistoric people, commitment to holism. Achieve a more complete picture of a culture by working with other specialists: explore all integrated aspects of a society. A society"s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behaviour and are reflected in that behaviour: ethnography. Detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork. Occurs among hunters, herders, fishers, or farmers living in far-off, isolated places. Dissecting a language that leads to a deeper understanding: historical linguistics. Examine interrelationships among different languages and investigate earlier and later forms of the same language.
