Assignment 10: Cultural Anthropology (10 points)

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Across
  1. 6. When a culture includes a great deal of variation within it, so that the members of the culture can be quite different from each other.
  2. 7. The type of field work cultural anthropologists conduct in order to study a culture (2 words, no space)
  3. 9. Tangible things in a culture. In our own culture, examples include a paperclip, my Honda Fit, your pants, your desk, your pen (2 words, no space).
  4. 10. The term for anthropologists' idea that one cannot understand parts of a culture in isolation, and that one must understand how all of the parts of a culture work together in order to understand each.
  5. 12. The entire way of life of a group of people. Includes all that is leaned, shared, and passed through learning to the next generation.
  6. 13. The term for the insider's view or perspective on a culture.
  7. 14. One's entire view of life, the cosmos, and everything. Anthropologists argue that this is profoundly shaped by culture, and influences how we perceive nature, other people, families, food, ideas of right and wrong, beliefs about the cosmos, esentially everything.
  8. 15. The idea that one's own culture is better - more natural or superior - to other cultures.
Down
  1. 1. This is a type of book that lays out what a cultural anthropologist learned about the entire way of life of a group.
  2. 2. When a culture does not contain much variety of beliefs or behaviors; when members of a culture are quite similar to one another in their ideas and how they live their lives.
  3. 3. When a smaller group within a culture has some unque aspects, such as having their own way of dressing, their own unique beliefs, and a specialized vocabulary - jargon - anthropologists say they are one of these. In our culure, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) is an example.
  4. 4. Cultural anthropologists study these.
  5. 5. The process of learning one's own culture. Much of what we learn about our culture is not explicitly taught to us, but we learn it by observing.
  6. 8. The term for the outsider's view or perspective of a culture.
  7. 11. These are all of the part of culture that are inangible, such as language, religious beliefs, or shared ideas of how men should and should not act(2 words, no space).
  8. 12. The approach, promoted by anthropologists, of viewing another culture's ways of doing things from the perspective of those inside the culture (2 words, no space).