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Mid-Term Review
Basic Concepts
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/05/2007

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Term
Ethnology
Definition
Studies a more broad point of view, comparative study. - Comparative science that studies “races” (or “ethnicities”). Classification, evolution, social organization.
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Ethnography
Definition
Intensive on a single case rather than comparing many societies. Emphasizes the subjective contribution of the fieldworker who participates in, observes, and then interprets and communicates a way of life. “The ethnography” as product (book) and rite of passage for the professional anthropologist.
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cultural relativism
Definition
understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging these practices according to one's own cultural ways.
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emic
Definition
view of the world as if you belonged to a specifc culture
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etic
Definition
views of a culture that are accepted by a group of scientists as a valid description for the culture.
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participant observation
Definition
living in a culture that is not your own while also keeping a detailed record of your observations and interviews.
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ethnocentrism
Definition
judging other cultures by the standards of your own, which you believe to be superior.
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Naïve realism
Definition
Naive realism is the view that when we perceive something, we have perceived it exactly as it is.
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