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Chapter 1 Vocabulary
What is Anthropology?
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2013

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Anthropology
Definition
the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors
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Holistic

Definition
encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture
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Culture
Definition
traditions and customs transmitted through learning
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Food Production
Definition
an economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication
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General Anthropology
Definition
anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology
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Biocultural
Definition
combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem
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Ethnography
Definition
fieldwork in a particular cultural setting
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Cultural Anthropology
Definition
the comparative, cross-cultural study of human society and culture
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Ethnology
Definition
the study of sociocultural differences and similarities
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Archaeological Anthropology
Definition
the study of human behavior through material means
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Biological Anthropology
Definition
the study of human biological variation in time and space
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Physical Anthropology
Definition
the study of human biological variation in time and space (same as biological anthropology)
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Science
Definition
field of study that seeks reliable explainations, with reference to the material and physical world
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Linguistic Anthropology
Definition
the study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space, and society
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Sociolinguistics
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the study of language in a society
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Applied Anthropology
Definition
using anthropology to solve contemporary problems
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Cultural Resource Management
Definition
deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved
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Theory
Definition
a set of ideas formulated to explain something
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Association
Definition
an observed relationship between two or more variables
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Hypothesis
Definition
a suggested but as yet unverified explanation
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