Anthropology midterm review

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What is Anthropology?

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the study of the full scope of human diversity.

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The framework that anthropologists use to challenge ethnocentrism is

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cultural relativism.

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The field of sociolinguistics studies

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the ways that language and cultural categories intersect.

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The idea that different languages create different ways of thinking is called

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the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.

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Which animal is known to have language?

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only humans

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The current concept of race has its roots in

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the slave trade and colonization.

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The scientific foundations for race as a biological concept

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don’t exist.

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The rule of hypodescent marked children of one black parent and one white parent as

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black.

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Racial ideologies are

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culturally shared sets of beliefs that underlie systems of inequality.

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A group of people who share a sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection and who see themselves as distinct from people in other groups is described as a(n)

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ethnic group