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Mind Map by Katy Escalera, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Katy Escalera
almost 9 years ago
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Anthropology: Science
devoted to the study of human
beings and their lifestyles
- Social Sciences
- Geography
- History
- Economy
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Demography
- Population Growth
- Population Growth
- Geography
- Anthropological sub-disciplines
- Physical anthropology:
Studies fossils and
disctintive features
- Archaeology: Study of
material remains of past
cultures
- Anthropological linguistics:
Studies diversity of
languages, tries to
reconstruct them
- Cultural anthropology:
Analysis of cultures of
human groups
- Physical anthropology:
Studies fossils and
disctintive features
- Key concepts through History
- Enculturation:
Learning process
of a culture
- Acculturation:
Exchange of
cultural
features
- Society: Group of people
who live according to a
behaviour to fullfil a
purpose
- Ethnocentrism: Judging
other cultures using own
standards
- State: Political unit with
independent goverment,
centralized organization
- Otherness: Notion of the
other as interpersonal
phenomenon. Helps to create
own identity
- Man: Being with opposable
thumbs, intelligence,
articulated speech
- Family
- Nuclear family: Parents
and children, regardless
of external factors
- Extended family:
Besides nuclear, all
relatives
- Nuclear family: Parents
and children, regardless
of external factors
- Exogamous marriage:
Marrying outside the
individuals with which one is
related
- Monogamy: Exclusive
couple (male and
female)
- Polygamy: Relationships
with a variable number of
partners
- Polyandry: One
female with several
husbands
- Polygyny: One male
with several wives
- Monogamy: Exclusive
couple (male and
female)
- Cultural ecology
- Family
- Enculturation:
Learning process
of a culture
- Anthropological Theories
- Historical particularism:
Emphasizes particular
aspects of singular
cultures. No savage
cultures
- Functionalism: Describes
functions of customs and
institutions for the sociey studied
- Culture and personality: Links cultural
practices and beliefs of the individual to
personality
- Neoevolutionism: Existence of a
cultural revolution. Amount of
energy put into execution
- French structuralism: Explain
origin of differences and alikes of
a culture
- Evolutionist school: History of
human societies has
developed progressively and
continously
- Diffusionism: Cultures
adopted their elements by
imitation
- Historical particularism:
Emphasizes particular
aspects of singular
cultures. No savage
cultures
- Ethnography: Study that makes an extensive
description of all aspects of everyday's life of a
culture
- Life history
- Pictures and videos
- Semi-structured interview
- Participant observation
- Focus group
- Testimony
- Documents
- Field diary
- Fieldwork: Obtaining the
desired information by
interacting with the
subject of study
- Life history
- Areas of application
- Education
- Urban and Business anthropology
- Medicine
- Education
- Culture: Traditions and lifestyles acquired by
the members of a society
- Emic: Local meanings. Discovering
the local views, beliefs and
perspectives
- Etic: Outsider perspective, emphasizes
explanations and categories of
observer
- Magic: Idea that there
are hidden powers in
nature
- Myth: Stories that
try to recreate the
origin of cultures
- Religion: God is the
essence of this belief,
concept of soul
- Sacred
- Profane
- Types of Cults
- Individualist
- Shamanist
- Community
- Ecclesiastical
- Individualist
- Sacred
- Emic: Local meanings. Discovering
the local views, beliefs and
perspectives
- Stages of Anthropology
- Description of other cultures and
reflection on the transformation
of their practices
- Search of scientific laws of
evolution of societies and
their institutions
- Search for scientific laws of the
functioning of species, from
divergent approaches
- Description of other cultures and
reflection on the transformation
of their practices
- Conclusion
- Troughout this course, I have learned several things. When I heard the word "Anthropology", I
always thought about it as something related to fossils and prehistoric civilizations, but no more. I
was very wrong. I found out that anthropology is a very important social science, because it allows
us not just to know historical data, but also to understand and interpret the behaviour of our past
cultures, learn what they were thinking, and why things happened just the way they were.
- I have also learned that anthropology and its concepts can be widely applied in our daily life, because most of the
problems that we face each day, can be analyzed using anthropological techniques that are specially designed for
each task, and make the data collection be easier. All the information that was gathered while doing these
investigations can be later published or be put to disposition of people, in order to be able to know and also to be
conscious about the things that happen here and know, and in certain cases, to do something about it.
- I have also learned that anthropology and its concepts can be widely applied in our daily life, because most of the
problems that we face each day, can be analyzed using anthropological techniques that are specially designed for
each task, and make the data collection be easier. All the information that was gathered while doing these
investigations can be later published or be put to disposition of people, in order to be able to know and also to be
conscious about the things that happen here and know, and in certain cases, to do something about it.
- Troughout this course, I have learned several things. When I heard the word "Anthropology", I
always thought about it as something related to fossils and prehistoric civilizations, but no more. I
was very wrong. I found out that anthropology is a very important social science, because it allows
us not just to know historical data, but also to understand and interpret the behaviour of our past
cultures, learn what they were thinking, and why things happened just the way they were.
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