ANTH 1120 Midterm Exam Review
Exam Review: TERMS
Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people.
Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture.
Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture.
Relativism: The attempt to understand the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found.
Relativistic Fallacy: The idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about the beliefs and behaviours of members of other cultures.
Armchair Anthropology: An approach to the study of various societies that dominated anthropology in the late 1800s. It involved the collection, study, and analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers, and colonists who had sustained contact with non-Western peoples. Armchair anthropologists used these documents to make comparisons and generalisations about the ways of life of various groups.
Participant Observation: An element of fieldwork that can involve participating in daily tasks, and observing daily interactions among a particular group.
Fieldwork: Anthropologists engage in long-term interactions (usually a year or more) with various groups of people. This often involves living with people, observing and contributing to daily chores and tasks (participant observation), and conducting interviews. Most fieldwork in anthropology has historically been qualitative in nature.
Ethnographic Method: The immersion of researchers in the lives and cultures of peoples they are trying to understand in order to comprehend the meanings these people ascribe to their existence, introduced by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Sociocultural Anthropology: An anthropological approach that retains the British
Culture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people.
Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture.
Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture.
Relativism: The attempt to understand the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found.
Relativistic Fallacy: The idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about the beliefs and behaviours of members of other cultures.
Armchair Anthropology: An approach to the study of various societies that dominated anthropology in the late 1800s. It involved the collection, study, and analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers, and colonists who had sustained contact with non-Western peoples. Armchair anthropologists used these documents to make comparisons and generalisations about the ways of life of various groups.
Participant Observation: An element of fieldwork that can involve participating in daily tasks, and observing daily interactions among a particular group.
Fieldwork: Anthropologists engage in long-term interactions (usually a year or more) with various groups of people. This often involves living with people, observing and contributing to daily chores and tasks (participant observation), and conducting interviews. Most fieldwork in anthropology has historically been qualitative in nature.
Ethnographic Method: The immersion of researchers in the lives and cultures of peoples they are trying to understand in order to comprehend the meanings these people ascribe to their existence, introduced by Bronislaw Malinowski.
Sociocultural Anthropology: An anthropological approach that retains the British