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The patterns of learned and shared behavior and beliefs
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Culture
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Applied anthropology by definition focuses upon ...
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Solving human problems
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Anthropology attempts to counter scientific reductionism with _______. Or the theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Holism
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According to lecture, the subfield of anthropology that focuses on human biological variation and adaptation is...
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Biological Anthropology
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Since Culture is adaptive it must _________ in response to changing needs.
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Change
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In Anthropology, the cross cultural comparative analysis of a cultural characteristic is called...
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Ethnology
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The idea that a culture must be understood in terms of its own values and beliefs and not by the standards of another cultures is...
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Cultural relativism
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Initial value judgments made by westerners about female circumcision or genital cutting were based on ...
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Ethnocentric ideas about male oppression of female sexuality.
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The reference to culture jamming in lecture refers to...
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The ambiguous 'subvert-able' meaning of the symbol CK
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The process through which we acquire and transmit culture is known as...
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Enculturation
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Absolute cultural relativism asserts ____.
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That whatever goes on in a culture must not be questioned by outsiders.
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If your parents disown you for marrying someone of another religion, it would be an example of...
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Proscribed enculturation
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The anthropological perspective that inter subjective social information flows both to and from the researcher is known as the...
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Dialectic
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Two themes identified in lecture that exist across all subfields of anthropology are...
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Diversity and Change
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Compared to other modalities of human adaptation, culture is a relatively _____ form of adaptation to social and natural environments.
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Rapid
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