ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 1 (FEBRUARY 18‚ 2013) GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY * Study of human kind‚ perspective of all people & all times * Full understanding of what it means “to be human” * Very diverse as a species BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY * Understanding relationship between biology and culture HOLISTIC * Referring to the whole system * Relating to or concerning the whole system rather than just part of the system * e.g. medicine→treatment of the whole body * consider all
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“try to understand what it is to be human” Biocultural approach: the relationship between what humans have inherited genetically and what they learn culturally Holistic: understanding people with all aspects of human nature Comparative: cross cultural Ethnocentric: a view that is centered on a specific ethnic group (usually ones own) belief in the superiority in ones ethnic group Cultural Relativism: a view that considers human interaction and behavior within their own culture. Sex vs. gender
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biological anthropology believe traditional views that races are biologically valid and real‚ while the other half believes that traditional racial categories for humankind are arbitrary and meaningless. That there are better ways to look at human variation than just by race. Gill actually does research on the particular traits used today in forensic identification. One of the things he found was that by using methods of bone analysis‚ forensic anthropologists attain a high degree of accuracy. But that
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reasons for this. But the three the Black American women are susceptible to are culture‚ lifestyle and biology. Forty nine percent of Black American women are obese. This is an over representation compared to 38% of Latina women and 33% of non-Hispanic white women. (Phelan‚ Johnson‚ Wesley). Many factors determine a person’s weight and health status. Economics‚ lifestyle‚ diet‚ culture‚ biology and society all affect a person’s body size and composition. Culture‚ biology and lifestyle have the
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male or female. The Organization of cultural activity by gender is pervasive. Every subject that we touch on in cultural anthropology shows the workings of the cultural construction of gender. Sexuality and Gender are the two main parts of the biocultural model The primate species of mammal to which modern humans belong known as Homo Sapien reproduce through sexual intercourse between male and female. Sex has been deemed less appropriate for scholarship than kinship or ritual is. Ironically in sex
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Purnell Model for Cultural Competence The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence originated out of education and practice. In 1989‚ when he took nursing students to a community hospital that was not accustomed to having students. Soon after the clinical experience began‚ it was obvious that the students and staff need additional knowledge concerning culture. The students primarily came from middle and upper middle class white families which most of the patients and staff came from lower socioeconomic
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| Ecuador | Philippine | Serbian | Hispanic/ Latino | Hong Kong(China | Ethiopia(Africa) | Haiti | Ireland | Jordan | Romania | | nnnn | Nig | Nigerian | | jooJo | Whites | Puerto Ricans | Some other race | Overview‚ inhabited localities and topography | Coastal‚ Mountain(Andes) Tropical Amazon | Warm/ Rainy season | All Season | Very warm to hot Mountainous jungle | Hot climate close to the equator | Warm Mountainous | Located in North America in the Gulf of Mexico 95Degree | Europe
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Course Project Milestone 2 Interview Guide and Questions Form This is a form to record your information for this assignment. Review the Course Project Milestone 2: Interviewee Guide and Questions guidelines and grading rubric in Doc Sharing (Assignments) prior to completing this form. Review the document in Doc Sharing entitled‚ NR391 Question Tips. Refer to Appendix A in your text and select five categories upon which you will concentrate for your interview guide and questions. Type your
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How do anthropologists understand other people’s psychologies? It is believed that humans are both biological and cultural beings‚ making them biocultural. Despite being fairly new to the world of anthropology‚ the biocultural perspective has built on history of research on how cultural and social influences shape the psychology‚ emotion‚ and personality‚ of the individual. Anthropologists have made sense of individual psychologies through many different theories. A good starting place on how anthropologists
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications‚ Department of Psychology Psychology‚ Department of 10-1-2009 The Early Development of Gender Differences Matthew H. McIntyre University of Central Florida‚ mmcintyr@mail.ucf.edu Carolyn P. Edwards University of Nebraska - Lincoln‚ cedwards1@unl.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub Part of the Psychiatry and Psychology Commons
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