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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2012

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Shared Culture
Definition
socially-learned knowledge and patterns of behavior
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Integrated Culture
Definition
prone to change, incorporates world-views
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Kapauku
Definition
Papuan ethnic group located in the west-central
part of the Central Highlands of Western New Guinea
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Neolithic Revolution
Definition
was the world's first historically verifiable revolution in agriculture.
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Culture vs. Society
Definition
Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society. Sociologists define society as the people who interact in such a way as to share a common culture.
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Social/cultural construction
Definition
theories of knowledge that consider how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts
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Primatology
Definition
study of primates
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Paleoanthropology
Definition
study of man
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Archaeology
Definition
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts.
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Physical anthropology
Definition
the branch of anthropology dealing with the genesis and variation of human beings.
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Cultural anthropology
Definition
social anthropology: the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society.
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Participant observation
Definition
a technique of field research, used in anthropology and sociology, by which an investigator (participant observer) studies the life of a group by sharing in its activities.
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Holism
Definition
the theory that whole entities, as fundamental components of reality, have an existence other than as the mere sum of their parts.
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Comparative
Definition
proceeding by, founded on, or using comparison as a method of study:
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Essentialism
Definition
is a cognitive process which means a spontaneous, unconscious and intuitive mannet to represent things or persons and to consider that their own characteristics are caused by an "essence" of their own category.
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Canonical
Definition
The prescribed official dress of the clergy.
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