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cognitive sciences
What methods and theories do cognitive anthropologists use to explain cultural innovation?
experimental psychology and evolutionary biology
What are two examples of methods and theories of cognitive science?
implicit knowledge
Cognitive anthropologists want to know how the way people perceive and related to the world around them is linked to what?
Political
What type of anthropology is interested in the structure of political systems?
structure of societies
From what basis do political anthropologists examine the structure of political systems?
the 1960s
When did the new development of a stateless society come about?
"complex"
The presence of states, bureaucracies and markets makes for what type of social setting?
Geertz
Who did a comparative work on a Balinese state?
Cyborg
What type of anthropology originated as a sub-focus group?
1993
When did the division of cyborg anthropology originate?
the Society for the Social Studies of Science
What the sub-group of cyborg anthropology very closely related to, in addition to STS?
Donna Haraway
Who published a Cyborg Manifesto?
its relations
What does cyborg anthropology study about humankind and technological systems humans have built?
Environmental
Which sub-specialty of anthropology takes an active role in looking at how humans interact with their environment?
political ecology
What is the focus of most of the field work in environmental anthropology today?
culture, politics and power, globalization, localized issues, and more.
What do many characterize the new perspective as being more informed with?
corporate
The data interpretation of environmental anthropology can be used to prevent what type of exploitation?
people of Hyde Park
Who does Melissa Checker have a relationship with?
by examining historical records
How does an someone interested in ethnohistory learn more about cultures and customs?
ethnic
Ethnohistory can study the history of what types of groups which may or may not exist today?
its foundation
What does ethnohistory use both historical and ethnographic data as?
documents and manuscripts
What do the methods of ethnohistory go beyond the standard use of?
Practitioners
Who recognizes the utility of music, folkore and language?
Urban
What division of anthropology is concerned with poverty?
Ulf Hannerz
Who is fond of quoting a remark from the 1960s?
notoriously agoraphobic
What is a stereotype of traditional anthropologists?
two
How many principles approaches are there in urban anthropology?
social issues
One would be studying how the dynamic of a city is affected if one were looking directly at different what?
human–animal studies
What is Anthrozoology also known as?
Anthrozoology
What is the study of interaction between living things?
number of other disciplines
What does the field of anthrozoology overlap with?
positive
What type of effects are a major focus of the anthrozoologic research?
anthropology, sociology, biology, and philosophy
What are some of the diverse range of fields scholars come to Anthrozoology from?
Evolutionary
What branch of anthropology studies human behavior and the relation between primates?
natural science and social science
What is evolutionary anthropology based in?
past and present
Which humans does evolutionary anthropology concern itself with the biological and cultural evolution of?
scientific
What type of approach is evolutionary anthropology based on?
many lines
What evidence does evolutionary anthropology draw on to understand the human experience?
Ethical
What type of anthropology commitment is noticing and documenting genocide?
mutilation
What is the proper term for circumcision?
racism, slavery, and human sacrifice
What are good topics to attract the attention of an anthropologist?
man
Nutritional deficiencies and colonialism are just two theories of the root cause of Man's inhumanity towards whom?
depth of an anthropological approach
Why can one find thousands of anthropological references to the topics?
active in the allied war effort
What were Boas' peers doing in the 1940s?
Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan
What groups formed the Axis forces?
the armed forces
What did many anthropologists serve in?
intelligence
The Office of Strategic Services is an example of what type of posting during the War?
communist sympathies.
Why are several anthropologists dismissed from their jobs, according to David H. Price?
the state
What do groups of anthropologists object to the use of anthropology for benefit of?
secret
What type of briefings are forbidden for members of certain anthropologist bodies to give?
certain scholarship
What has the ASA identified as being ethically dangerous?
The AAA
Who penned a "Statement of Professional Responsibility"?
given
Secret research and reports are things which should never be what?
the US military
Who are anthropologists working with along with other social scientists?
US Army's strategy in Afghanistan
What are the anthropologists part of?
Counterinsurgency
What efforts focus on better understanding and meeting of local needs in Afghanistan?
Iraq
Where are HTS teams working with the military in addition to Afghanistan?
ethics
What does the AAA feel is incompatible with working with the military?
Biological
What type of anthropologist is interested in human variation?
human universals
What would an idea shared by virtually all human cultures be considered?
into the field
Where can participant observation take an anthropologist?
a community in its own setting
To be able to do fieldwork, an anthropologist must first travel to what?
genetic
Articles can published once what type of samples have been taken?
relevant time periods and geographic regions
How do anthropologists typically like to divide up the world?
cultural traditions based on material
How has human time on Earth been divided up?
tool
Olduwan, Mousterian, and Levalloisian are all types of what?
geographers
Mapping cultures is central to both the sciences of anthropologists and who else?
comparative method
What is a central part of the science of anthropology?
"other cultures
What do some authors state anthropology developed as the study of?
time
A past society would be an other culture separated by what temporal aspect?
non-European/non-Western societies
What other cultures are said to be separated by space, what is actually meant?
Ulf Hannerz
Who published a book with unnecessarily long title, "Exploring the City: Inquires Toward an Urban Anthropology"?
only in late 1960s
When did anthropologists stop looking for cultures far away and instead began to "look across the tracks"?
set ethnographic research in the North Atlantic region
What has become common for social anthropologists to do since the 1980s?
research to a single locale
Setting research in the North Atlantic region allows looking at connections between locations rather than being limited to what?
daily life of ordinary people
What has there been a shift toward broadening the focus beyond?
scientific laboratories
What setting have anthropologists done more research in recently?
research
Governmental and nongovernmental organizations and businesses are all settings which are fair game to do what in?
wounded in an attempted assassination
What happened to Joseph I in 1758?
The Távora family and the Duke of Aveiro
Who was implicated in the attempted assassination of Joseph I?
The Jesuits
Who was expelled from the country after the assassination attempt on Joseph I?
1759
In what year did Joseph I make his minister the Count of Oeiras?
Sebastião de Melo prosecuted every person involved, even women and children
What act finally broke the power of the aristocracy?
1770
In which year was the Count of Oeiras made the Marquis of Pambal?
until Joseph I's death in 1779
How long did the Marquis of Pombal rule Portugal?
autocracy
What did Pombal's enlightenment promote at the expense of individual liberty?
knew no opposition
Was the new Count of Oeiras opposed by anyone after the Tavora affair?
crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation
What was Pombal's "enlightenment" an apparatus for?
Napoleon
Under whose occupation did Portugal begin a slow decline?
1822
In what year did Brazil become independent from Portugal?
Brazil
To where did Prince Regent Joao VI of Portugal transfer his court?
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
What was the name of the pluricontinental state formed by Portugal and Brazil in 1815?
until the 20th century
How long did Portugal's decline last?
French
Portugese and British troops fought against the invasion of which country?
until the Liberal Revolution of 1820
Until when did the King of Portugal remain in Brazil?
Porto
Where did the Liberal Revolution of 1820 begin?
1815
By what year had the situation in Europe cool down enough so that Joao VI would have been able to safely return to Lisbon?
the change in its status and the arrival of the Portuguese royal family
What provoked the modernization and expansion of the Brazilian administrative, civic, economical, military, educational, and scientific apparatus?
before the turn of the 20th century
When were railroad tracks being installed Portugese Africa?
1884
When was the Conference of Berlin held?