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| The study of the human species and it's immediate ancsetors. |
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| What are the 2 parts of anthropology? |
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| encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture |
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| traditions and customs transmitted through learning |
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| an econmoy based on plant cultuvation and/or animal domestication |
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| Anthropology as a whole; cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology |
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| Fieldwork in a particular cultural setting |
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| Combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem |
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| The comparative, cross cultural study of human society and culture |
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| The study of sociocultural differences and similarities |
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| Archaeological Anthropology |
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| The study of human behavior through material remains |
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| Biological/Physical Anthropology |
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| The study of human biological variation in time and space |
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| Field of study that seeks reliable explanations with reference to the material and physical world |
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| The study of the language and linguistic diversity in time, space, ans society |
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| The study of language in society |
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| Using anthropology to solve contemporary problems |
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| Cultural Resource Management |
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| Deciding what needs saving when entire achaeological sites cannot be saved |
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| A set of ideas formulated to explain something |
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| An observed relationship between two or more variables |
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| A suggested but as yet unverified explanation |
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- Have a reserach questions
- construct a hypothesis
- posit a mechanism
- get data to test your hypothesis
- devise a way of measuring
- analyze your data
- draw a conclusion
- derive implications
- contribute to larger theory
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| The process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations |
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| Something, verbal or nonverbal, that stands for something else |
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| key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture |
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| Member of hominid family; any fossil or living human, chimp, or gorilla |
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| Hominids, exluding the African apes, all the human species that ever have existed |
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| Something that exists in every culture |
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| Culture pattern or trait that exists in some but not all societies |
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| Distinctive or unique culture trait, pattern, or integration |
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| Cultural features shared by citizens of the same nation |
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| Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries |
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| Different cultural traditions assoc. with subgroups in the same nation |
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| Juding other cultures using one's own cultural standards |
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| Rights vested in religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies |
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| Idea that behavior should be evaluated not by outside standards but in the context of the culture in which it occurs |
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| Intellectual property rights, an indigenous group's collective knowledge and its applicaitons |
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| An exchange of cultural feature between groups in firsthand contact |
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| Borrowing of cultural traits between societies |
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| The independent development of a cultural feature in different societies |
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| The accelerating interdependence of nations in the world system today |
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- Direct, firsthand observation of behavior, including participant observation
- Conversation with varying degrees of formality
- The genealogical method
- detailed work with key consultants, or informants, about particular areas of community life
- in-depth interviewing (collection of life histories)
- Discovery of local (native) beliefs and perceptions
- Problem-oriented research of many sorts
- Longitudinal research - the continuous long-term study of an area or site
- team research - coordinated reserach by multuple enthographers
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| Form (guide) used to structure a formal, but personal, interview |
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| Form used by sociologists to obtain comparable information from respondents |
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| using diagrams and symbols to record kin connections |
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| expert on a particular aspect of local life |
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| of a key consultant, a personal protrait of someone's life in a culture |
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| reserch strategy focusing on local explanations and meanings |
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| people who teach an ethnographer about their culture |
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| research stragety emphasizing the ethnographer's explanations and categories |
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| long-term study, usually based on repeated visits |
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| the study of society through sampling, statisical analysis, and impersonal data collection |
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| a smaller study group chosen to represent a larger population |
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| a sample in which all poulation members have an equal chance of inclusion |
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| attributes that differe from one person or case to the next |
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| larger, populous societies (e.g. nations) with a stratification and central governemts |
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| agreement to take part in research - after having been informed about its nature, procedures, and possible impacts |
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| idea (19th century) of a single line or path of cultural development |
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| idea (Boas) that histories are not comparable; diverse paths can lead to the same cultural result |
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| approach focusing on the role (fn) of sociocultural practies in social systems |
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| (studyign societies) at one time |
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| (studying societies) acrros time |
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| view of culture as integrated and patterned |
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| idea (Harris) that cultural infrastructure determines structure and superstructure |
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| (Kroeber) the special domain of culture, beyond the organic and inorganic realms |
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| the study of symbols in theiry social and cultural context |
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| Interpretive Anthropology |
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| (Geertz) the study of a culture as a system of meaning |
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| the actions of individuals, alone and in groups, that create and transform culture |
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| the web of interrelated economic and power relations in society |
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