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Why type of conflict is sociocultural anthropology interested in?
Archaeology
What field studies human's past through material remains?
human behavior and cultural practices
What can archaeologists deduce from material remains?
past human groups
What do Ethnoarchaeologists gain a better understanding of by studying living human groups?
in similar ways
How are long dead human groups presumed to have lived and behaved as compared to still living populations?
cultural and material lives of past societies
What are artifacts, faunal remains and human altered landscapes the evidence of?
anthropological
What problems does linguistic anthropology bring linguistic methods to bear on?
interpretation of sociocultural processes
What is the analysis of linguistic forms and processes linked to?
Linguistic
What subdivision of anthropology seeks to understand the process of human communications?
sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis
What related fields do linguistic anthropologists draw on?
art
What is a cultural phenomenon?
do not exist
What have several anthropologists noted about Western artistic endeavors and their place in non-Western contexts?
evident 'aesthetic' qualities
What formal features in objects do anthropologists of art focus on?
1983
When was Art as Cultural System penned?
culturally specific 'aesthetics'
What is the trend to transform the anthropology of 'art' into an anthropology of?
Étienne Serres
Who used the term anthropology to describe the natural history of man?
1838
When was anthropology used as a term for comparative anatomy?
1850
When was a chair created for anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History?
France
Where is the National Museum of Natural History located?
Société Ethnologique de Paris
What organization was formed by members whose primary objective was the abolishment of slavery?
comparative methods
What is anthropology the intellectual results of?
similarities
What were theorists in diverse fields beginning to notice between animals and languages?
processes or laws unknown to them then
What did the theorists suspect these patterns were the result of?
epiphany
What was Darwin's On The Origin of Species for theorists?
comparison of species
How did Darwin arrive at his conclusions?
late 1850s.
When did Wallace and Darwin unveil the theory of evolution?
bring it into the social sciences
What was there a rush to do with the theory of evolution?
Paris
Where did Paul Broca reside?
Société de biologie
What organization was Broca in the process of disentangling himself from?
Transformisme
What did the French call evolutionism?
neurosurgeon
If Broca were alive today, what would his profession be?
the pathology of speech
What particularly interested Broca?
speech center
What did Broca discover in the human brain?
psychology
What did the German philosopher Waitz specialize in?
six
How many volumes was Waitz work?
the science of the nature of man
How did Waitz define anthropology?
an animist
What philosophical perspective did Waitz hold?
comparative anatomy, physiology, and psychology
What would anthropology use to differentiate man from the animals nearest him?
empirical
What did Waitz stress that the data of comparison must be?
civilization
What history was to be brought into the comparison?
British ethnologists
Who was Waitz influential among?
1863
In what year did Richard Francis Burton break away from the Ethnological Society of London?
anthropology
What path of exploration did the Anthropological Society of London follow?
French Société
Representatives from where were present in the Anthropological Society of London?
Waitz
Whose work did Hunt stress in the first volume of The Anthropological Review?
majority of the world's higher educational institutions
What did the 20th century see the expansion of anthropology departments into?
subdivisions
What was anthropology diversified into dozens of?
Practical
What type of anthropology is used to solve specific problems?
recreate the final scene
What does a forensic archaeologist become stimulated to do in the presence of buried victims?
about three dozen
From how many nations does the WCAA boast members from?
Media anthropology
What type of anthropology tries to understand the social aspects of mass media?
ethnographic
Media production and media reception are examples of what type of context?
early 1990s
Media such as a radio and television have started to make their presences felt since what years?
media reception
Following audiences in their everyday responses to media is encompassed by what type of context?
cyber
What type of anthropology involves the relatively new area of internet search?
Visual
What type of anthropology concerns itself with the study of photography and film?
visual representation
What are performances, art, and the production of mass media grouped under?
all
What cultures' visual representations are included in visual anthropology?
ethnographic film
What term is visual anthropology sometimes used interchangeably with?
Economic
Which branch of anthropology attempts to explain human economic behavior?
historic, geographic and cultural
Economic anthropology covers what scope of human economic behavior?
discipline of economics
What is economic anthropology highly critical of?
Bronislaw Malinowski
Who was the Polish-British founder of Anthropology?
exchange
What is Economic Anthropology mostly focused upon?
traditional concerns
What does political economy in anthropology apply Historical Materialism to?
history and colonialism
What did Political Economy introduce questions of to theories of social structure and culture?
Hunter-gatherers
Who were the original affluent society?
population
What do peasants make up the vast majority of in the world?
industrial (and post-industrial) capitalism
What have Political Economists most recently focused on the issues of?
Applied
What type of anthropology is used to analyse and find solutions to real world problems?
change or stability
What do the instrumental methods of applied anthropology produce?
direct
What type of action does applied anthropology initiate?
the practical side
What side of anthropology is applied anthropology?
participating
Included in applied anthropology is researcher involvement as well as activism in what communities?
critical
What perspective does development anthropology view development from?
pondering
What does development anthropology involves doing a lot of?
increasing
Development anthropologists would like to know why if a goal is to alleviate poverty, that poverty is doing what?
gap
When it comes to plans and outcomes, what do development anthropologists look at between them?
fail
What does a lot of planned development apparently do?
Kinship
What can refer to the study of patterns in human cultures?
anthropology
What has developed a number of related concepts and terms?
Over its history
When has anthropology developed related terms?
one's social relations during development
What does it mean if people are related by descent?
marriage
Kinship patterns can included people who are relatives by what cultural ritual involving the exchange of rings and sometimes dowry?
Feminist
What type of anthropology focuses on a political agenda rather than on contributing to science?
male bias
What does feminist anthropology self-reports as seeking to reduce in research findings?
systematic bias
What do feminist anthropologists claim their research helps to correct?
gender
What are feminist anthropologists centrally concerned about?
birth anthropology
What type of anthropology do feminist anthropologists inclusively specialize in?
Nutritional
What division of anthropology concerns itself with food security?
food security
Nutritional anthropologists investigate the interplay between economic systems and what?
globalization
If environmental changes in a community affect access to food, then there is an eventual connection to what?
Nutritional status
What affects overall health status?
economic
What can having ready access to food affect the overall potential development of?
Psychological
What subfield of anthropology studies mental processes?
humans' development and enculturation
What does psychological anthropology particularly focus on in a particular culture group?
its own history, language, practices, and conceptual categories
What aspects define a cultural group?
cultural group
What shapes processes of human cognition?
understanding
Psychological anthropology examines how our models of social processes are informed by what?
Cognitive
What type of anthology deals with patterns of shared knowledge?