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Anthropology
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/15/2008

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Four basic questions of human existence that anthropology confronts?
Definition
How we originated, how we have changed, how we are still changing, and how populations succeed.
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Anthropology is ______; interested in the whole of the human condition.
Definition
Holistic.
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Four Subfields
Definition
Sociocultural Anth, Archaeology, Biological Anth, Linguistic Anth. (SABL)
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Sociocultural Anthropology
Definition
Examines cultural diversity of the present and recent past.
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Archaeology
Definition
Reconstructing behavior by studying animal remains.
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Biological Anthropology
Definition
Study of human fossils, genetics, and bodily growth, and of nonhuman primates.
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Linguistic Anthropology
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Considers how speech varies with social factors and over time.
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Society
Definition
Organized life in groups.
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Culture
Definition
Traditions and customs that govern behavior, beliefs, and morals.
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The difference between society and culture.
Definition
Culture is distinctly human and is transmitted through learning.
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