3.8: Chapter 1: The Culture Concept Study Guide

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The Culture Concept

Use this study guide as you read the selected chapter, to help you focus on the important terms, concepts, people and places. This will also help you prepare for the quiz on this chapter.

Armchair anthropology
Boas
Common themes in stories
Cultural determinism
Cultural evolutionism
Cultural relativism
Empirical methodology
Enculturation
Ethical principles in anthropology
Ethnocentrism
European colonial era
Frazer
Functionalism
Geertz (and definition of culture)
Going native
Gulliver’s Travels (written by Jonathan Swift)
Holism
Kinship
Malinowski
Participant observation
Radcliffe-Brown
Salvage anthropology
Stories Structuralism
The Other
Tylor (and definition of culture)

Chapter 1: The Culture Concept Study Guide. Provided by: Pima Community College. Located at: http://cc.pima.edu/~lumen/ant112/Modules/CH1%20SG.htm. License: CC BY: Attribution