Anthropology Final Exam

These are my study flash-cards for my anthropology exam.

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Cards In This Set

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4 Fields
Cultural, Physical, Archaeology, Linguistics.
Applied Anthropology
Using Anthropology to solve problems.
Race
A cultural division of people based on color of skin, but not biology. What defines race differs from place to place.
Ethnicity
A group of people distinguished by cultural traits, not biological.
Eugenics
Racial purification. The idea that cultural & behavioral traits were passed down by parents. Breeding predominant races and castrating and sterilizing “inferior” races.
Law of hypo-descent in US racial categories
Assigning the lesser or inferior race to mixed-race children.
Carlos Von Linnaeus & Taxonomy
Early Taxonomy of racial categories. Five categories: Africanus, Americanus, Asiaticus, Europeanus, and Monstrosus. By location and skin-color.