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| The study of humankind in all times and places. |
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| A fundamental principle of anthropology: that the various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence. |
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| Theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values of one's own culture. |
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| the use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client. |
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| Also known as biological anthropology. The systematic study of humans as biological organisms. |
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| A branch of biological anthropology that uses genetic abd biochemical techniques to test hypotheses about human evolution, adaptation, and variation. |
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| the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species. |
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| Focusing on the interaction of biology and culture. |
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| Applied subfield of physical anthropology that specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes. |
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| The study of living and fossil primates. |
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| Also known as social or sociocultural anthropology. The study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings. It focuses on humans as culture producing and culture reproducing creatures. |
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| A society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior. |
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| A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork. |
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| The term anthropologists use for on-location research. |
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| In ethnography, the technique of learning a people's culture through social participation and personal observation within the community being studied, as well as interviews and discussion with individual members of the group over an extended period of time. |
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| The study and analysis of different cultures from a comparative or historical point of view, utilizing ethnographic accounts and developing anthropological theories that help explain why certain important differences or similarities occur among groups. |
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| The study of human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data. |
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| Cultural Resource Management |
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| A branch of archaeology tied to government policies for the protection of cultural resources and involving surveying and/or excavating archaeological and historical remains threatened by construction of development. |
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| The study of human languages, looking at their structure, history, and/or relation to social and cultural contexts. |
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| Based on observations of the world rather than on intuition or faith. |
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| A tentative explanation of the relation between certain phenomena. |
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| In science, an explanation of natural phenomena, supported by a reliable body of data. |
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| Worldwide interconnectedness, evidenced in global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases. |
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