ANTHROPOLOGY APPRECIATING HUMAN
DIVERSITY EXAM PREPARATION PACK 2026
KEY CONCEPTS AND REVISION NOTES
◉ Ethnology.
Answer: An attempt to find principals and laws that govern cultural
groups
◉ Ethnocentrism.
Answer: Belief that ones own culture is superior than any other
◉ Food Production.
Answer: An Economy based on cultivation of plants and
domestication (stockbreeding) of animals; first developed 10,000 to
12,000 years ago.
◉ General Anthropology.
Answer: The field of Anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural,
archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.
◉ Holistic.
,Answer: Interested in the whole of the human condition: past,
present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.
◉ Hypothesis.
Answer: A suggested but as yet unverified explanation.
◉ Linguistic Anthropology.
Answer: The descriptive, comparative, and historical study of
language and of linguistic similarities and differences in time, space,
and society.
◉ Physical Anthropology.
Answer: The study of human physical variation in time and space;
includes evolution, genetics,growth and development, and
primatology.
◉ Science.
Answer: A systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims,
through experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable
explanations of phenomena, with references to the material and
physical world.
◉ Sociolinguistics.
, Answer: Investigates relationships between social and linguistic
variations.
◉ Theory.
Answer: A set of ideas formulated (by reasoning from known facts)
to explain something.
-Used to promote understanding
-Suggests patterns connections, relationships that may be confirmed
by new research.
◉ Acculturation.
Answer: The exchange of cultural features that results when groups
coming to continuous first hand contact; the cultural patterns of
either or both groups may be changed but the groups remain
distinct .
◉ Symbol.
Answer: Something, verbal or nonverbal, that arbitrarily and by
convention stands for something else, with which it has no
necessary or natural connection.
◉ Core Values.
Answer: He basic or central values that integrate a culture and help
distinguish it from others.
DIVERSITY EXAM PREPARATION PACK 2026
KEY CONCEPTS AND REVISION NOTES
◉ Ethnology.
Answer: An attempt to find principals and laws that govern cultural
groups
◉ Ethnocentrism.
Answer: Belief that ones own culture is superior than any other
◉ Food Production.
Answer: An Economy based on cultivation of plants and
domestication (stockbreeding) of animals; first developed 10,000 to
12,000 years ago.
◉ General Anthropology.
Answer: The field of Anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural,
archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.
◉ Holistic.
,Answer: Interested in the whole of the human condition: past,
present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.
◉ Hypothesis.
Answer: A suggested but as yet unverified explanation.
◉ Linguistic Anthropology.
Answer: The descriptive, comparative, and historical study of
language and of linguistic similarities and differences in time, space,
and society.
◉ Physical Anthropology.
Answer: The study of human physical variation in time and space;
includes evolution, genetics,growth and development, and
primatology.
◉ Science.
Answer: A systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims,
through experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable
explanations of phenomena, with references to the material and
physical world.
◉ Sociolinguistics.
, Answer: Investigates relationships between social and linguistic
variations.
◉ Theory.
Answer: A set of ideas formulated (by reasoning from known facts)
to explain something.
-Used to promote understanding
-Suggests patterns connections, relationships that may be confirmed
by new research.
◉ Acculturation.
Answer: The exchange of cultural features that results when groups
coming to continuous first hand contact; the cultural patterns of
either or both groups may be changed but the groups remain
distinct .
◉ Symbol.
Answer: Something, verbal or nonverbal, that arbitrarily and by
convention stands for something else, with which it has no
necessary or natural connection.
◉ Core Values.
Answer: He basic or central values that integrate a culture and help
distinguish it from others.
