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Anthropology Ch. 8
11 cards·by emarch
Institutions
complex, variable, and eduring forms of cultural practice that organize social life.
Determinism
the Philosophical view that one simple force causes complex events.
Essence
an unchanging core of features that is unique to things of the same kind and that makes what they
are.
Holism
perspective on human condition that assumes that mind and body, individuals and society, and
interpentrate and define each other.
Ethnocentrism
the opinion that ones way of life is natural and correct and the only true way of being
fullyhuman.
Human Agency
the excersize of at least some control over their lives by human beings.
Determinism
the philosophical view that one simple force causes complex events.
Essence
an unchanging core of features that is unique to things of the same kind and that makes what they
are.
Holism
perspective on human condition that assumes that mind and body, individuals and society, and
interpentrate and define each other.
Cultural Relativism
understanding another culture in its own terms sympathetically enough so the culture is a
meaningful design for living.
Human Agency
the excersize of at least some control over their lives by human beings.