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Anthropology
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Anthropology
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The study of humanity, including pre-historic origins and contemporary human diversity.
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Biological (physical) anthropology
Definition
The study of humans as biological organisms, including evolution and contemporary variation.
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Archaeology
Definition
The study of pas human cultures through their material remains.
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Linguistic anthropology
Definition
The study of human communication, including its origins, history, and contemporary variation and change.
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Cultural anthropology
Definition
The study of living peoples and their cultures, including variation and change.
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Cultural
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Refers to people's learned and shared behaviors and beliefs.
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Applied anthropology
Definition
The use of anthropological knowledge to prevent or solve problems or to shape and achieve policy goals.
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Primatology
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The study of the nonhuman members of the order of mammals called primates.
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Paleoanthropology
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The study of human evolution on the basis of the fossil record.
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Contemporary human biological variation
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Define, measure, and seek to explain differences in the biological makeup and behavior of contemporary humans.
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Prehistoric archeology
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Concerns the human past before written records.
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Historic archaeology
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Deals with the human past in societies that have written documents.
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Underwater archeology
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The study of submerged archeological sites.
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Historical Linguistics
Definition
The study of language change over time and how languages are related
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Descriptive (structural) linguistics
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The study of how contemporary languages differ in terms of their formal structure
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Sociolinguistics
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He study of relationships among social variation, social context, and linguistic variation, including nonverbal communication.
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Culture
Definition
People's learned and shared beliefs
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Functionalism
Definition
The view that a culture is similar to a biological organism, in which the parts work to support the operation and maintenance of the whole.
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Holism
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The view that one must study all aspects of a culture in order to understand it.
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Cultural Relativism
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The view that each culture must be understood in terms of the values and ideas of that culture and not be judge by the standards of another.
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Cultural Materialism
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A theory that takes material features of life, such as the environment, natural resources, and mode of livelihood, as the bases for explaining social organization and ideology.
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Interpretive anthropology
Definition
The view that cultures are best understood by studying what people think about, their ideas, and the meanings that are important to them.
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Structurism
Definition
A theoretical position concerning human behavior and ideas that says large forces such as the economy, social and political organization, and the media shape what people do and think.
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Agency
Definition
The ability of humans to make choices and exercise free will even within dominating structures.
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Microculture
Definition
A distinction patter of learned and shared behavior and thinking found within a larger culture.
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Symbol
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An object, word, or action with culturally defined meaning that stands for something else; most symbols are arbitrary.
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Globalization
Definition
Increased and intensified international ties related to the spread of Western, especially U.S., capitalism that affect all world cultures.
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Localization
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The transformation of global culture by local cultures into something new.
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Class
Definition
A way of categorized people on the basis of their economic position in society, usually measured in terms of income or wealth.
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"Race"
Definition
A classification of people into groups on the basis of supposedly homogeneous and biological traits such as skin color or hair characteristics.
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Ethnicity
Definition
A shared sense of identity among members of a group based on heritage, language, or culture.
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Indigenous People
Definition
Groups of people who have a long sanding connection with their home territories that predates colonial or outside societies.
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Gender
Definition
Culturally constructed and learned behaviors and ideas attributed to males, females, or blended genders.
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
Judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture rather than by the standards of that particular culture.
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Biological Determinism
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A theory that explain human behavior and ideas as shaped mainly by biological features such as genes and hormones.
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Cultural Constructionism
Definition
A theory that explains human behavior and ideas as shaped mainly by learning.
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