ANTH 1102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American Anthropological Association, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Darwinism
22 Aug 2016
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Key ideas- culture"s look different to the anthropologists outside of them (etic perspective), specifically looking at the strange tendencies of americans. Key ideas- exposed controversy between evolution and creationism theory in places such as cobb county and pennsylvania. Created stickers to discourage students from reading textbook that included evolutionist ideas. *wanted students to be open minded and stated that evolution was only a theory, but it is a scientific theory with evidence. Ethnography: fieldwork in a particular cultural setting- single view. Ethnology: the study of living cultures and their sociocultural differences and similarities; the comparative study of ethnographic data, society, and culture- general views. Academic anthropology: grant and university research anthropologists goals are to use the grants to fund their research question. Applied anthropology: applying anthropology to solve contemporary problems. Has created new fields of study: helpful acronym to remember. Urban and rural areas: relationship between urban and rural areas and the problems that come with it.
