ANTH 1102 Final: anthro final guide
22 Aug 2016
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Understand what anthropology does and what the focus of research is: anthropology. The study of human nature, human society, and the human past. Holistic and comparative: know the four subfields as well as academic versus applied research. Aimed at influencing human behavior and social conditions: understand what anthropological fieldwork is, the techniques, the role in research. Longitudinal: long-term study based on repeated visits. Time spent in the field may be called field seasons. The set of learned behavior and ideas that humans acquire as members of a society; consists of abstract value, perceptions, and beliefs of world: identify and describe the different traits of culture helpful acronym: Scailsail: learned, shared, symbolic- culture & nature, all-encompassing- Individual practice: levels of culture, understand the different aspects of cultural behavior. All people have equal biological capabilities to learn everyone has the same cultural capabilities everyone can learn different cultures levels of sharing cultural traits differ between groups.
