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Ethnocentrism
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Judging another culture as inferior based on the value's & standards of one's own culture rather than by the standards of other cultures
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What do archaeologists use as research materials?
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Artifacts, fossils, garbage piles
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Biological anthropologists focus on...
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The study of humans as biological organisms, including evolution and contemporary variation (primatology, paleoanthropology, contemporary human biology
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Microcultures
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Small unit of a culture inside a wider culture
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The four models of cultural interaction
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Hybridization, clash of civilization, localization, mcdonaldization
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Hybridization
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Occurs when two or more cultures are mixed to form something new-a blend
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Localization
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The transformation of global culture by local cultures into something new
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Mcdonaldization
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Powerful influence of US corporate culture is creating a homogeneous world
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Clash of civilization
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The spread of euro-american capitalism and life ways throughout the world has created alienation, resentment among other cultural systems: "the west, and the rest"
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Tamale lady
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Read!!
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Homo habilis is associated with tools called
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Olduvain
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Where is the earliest evidence of the neolithic revolution found
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Mesopotamia
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Similarities between modern humans and most primate species
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Bipedalism a possibility, brachiation, highly social, grasping hands, speech, willing to help
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Neanderthals brains compared to humans
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Bigger
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Humans/animals making tools
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Most animals use tools, not a sign of intelligence, symbolic tools (stuffed animals)
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