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| the study of humankind from its origin to its present |
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| biological anthropology (3) |
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physical
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primatology |
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| study of culture and behavior and all aspects of life that affect culture |
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| study of material remains of past human's behavior |
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refuse
architecture
schipwrecks
landscape
abandoned places |
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| physical, tangible aspects of culture |
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| a froup of individuals prescribing to the same worldview |
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| the study of primates as the closest living relatives to humans, and the closest analogy to behavior of early hominids |
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| charles darwin's theory of natural selection and heritable variation; all species had a common ancestor. |
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1802-1882
drew from geological, biological, and population studies to derive the theory of natural selection |
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"survival of the fittest"
wrote about evolution before darwin |
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recent africa origins
multiregionalism
genetic assimilation |
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| all place beginnings in africa, though question when and which species became homo erectus |
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| challenged unilineal evolution |
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| biological studies, physical measurements, statistical analyses, etc. do not result in discrete racial categories |
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| your personal sense of self and how others label you, in relation to your position in society |
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| culturally defined categories of man and woman and everything in between |
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associated with national origin
based on a shared sense of identity stemming from a shared history, language, religion, and/or territory |
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| position/standing in society based on prestige, value, and worth |
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| the various systems of social organization that societies have constructed on principles derived from the unniversal human experiences of mating, birth, and nurturance |
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| one person with multiple spouses |
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| the field of anthropology that focuses on the struture of language and its relation to culture |
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| human communication by means of shared symbols |
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| representations of words, letters, and compound phrases |
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| the provision of goods and services to meet biological and social wants |
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| making material items or services useful and available for consumption |
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| dominant way of using goods and services |
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| transferring goods, services, or other items between and among people and groups. |
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| organization based on the need to meet material and social necessities |
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Karl Marx
traces the development of different types of production that humans have used over time. |
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| non-industrial societies (4) |
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foragers
horticuluralists
pastoralists
agriculturalists |
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| grow useful crops on a small scale |
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| produce crops through large scale farming |
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| specialized production and manufacturing of goods through use of machinery |
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| system of transfers in which the goal is either immediate or eventual balance |
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| system of transfers in whcih one party attempts to make a profit |
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| the apportioning of a society's jobs to specific individuals |
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| when certain jobs are performed by particular individuals |
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| move, following natural resources |
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| small autonomous group, usually lineages, that form a community |
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| practice of not recognizing social differences based on wealth |
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| settlement pattern in which people largely stay in one place year-round |
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| learned concepts, generalizations, abstractions, assumptions, and ideas that are shared among a group of people |
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| looking at a moment (snapshot) in history |
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| study of long-term change, historical background |
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| the realization and understanding of a set of relationships; an addition to knowledge |
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| creation of new things using discovered knowledge |
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| improvement on previous technology or wasy of using new technology |
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| spread of ideas and culture through contact between different people |
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| rapid diffusion of cultural items either by choice or force; minority culture becomes more like the dominant culture |
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| minority culture is thoroughly changes and cannot be distinguished from the dominant culture |
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| something possesssedd as a result of one's natural situation at birth |
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| perceived as real or true culture or heritage |
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| the application of an economic value to culture or heritage sites |
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| strong sense of identity based on national origin |
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| ancient skeleton found in the columbus river in 1996 that was different from othger prehistoric skulls of the area |
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| travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes |
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| anyone who travels for leisure, business, or education |
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| parks, historic areas, amusement areas |
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| originally over 100,000 acres in Kenya. has become a tourist site, colonial image, exploit maasai |
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| a system of ideas and rules for behavior based on supernatural explanations |
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| a set of secular rules governing the behavior of individuals within a society |
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| a set of cultural rules for bringing together a man and a woman (usually) to create a family unit and for defining their behavior toward each other, their children, and society |
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| the use of ritual and paraphernalia to compel or manipulate the supernatural to act in desired ways |
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| traditionally, evil acts are performed by individuals who possess inherent powers |
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| those with inherent powers that allow them to do harm without necessarily using magic paraphernalia |
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| the process of conducting scientific inquiry |
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| looks at all aspects of a culture and their interrelationships, and understands a culture within the context of its cultural system |
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| better understanding a society and its culture by trying as much as possible to be a part of it |
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| studying a culture from its point of view without imposing our own point of views |
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| a culture with an agrocultural surplus, social stratification, labor specialization, a formal government, rule by power, monumental construction projects, and a system of record keeping |
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| tribe that built geographical mounds out of earth and used them in rituals |
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| the process that promotes, economic, political, and other cultural connections among people living all over the world |
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| the situation that occurs when two societies with different cultures somehow come in contact with each other |
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| a book by Lewis Hyde that describes the cross-cultural misunderstandings that can come along with gift giving |
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| the idea that political and economic power is being used to exalt and spread the values and habits of a foreign culture at the expense of a native culture |
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| removal of the natural environment at the expense of its inhabitants to make way for industry |
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| being watched and photographed by tourists even when doing the most mundane things |
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