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| the study of human nature, human society, and the human past. |
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| a characteristic of the anthropological perspective that describes how anthropology tries to integrate all that is known about human beings and their activities at the highest and most inclusive level. |
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| a characteristic of the anthropological perspective that requires anthropologists to consider similarities and difference in a wide a range of human societies as possible before generalizing about human nature, human society, or the human past. |
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| a characteristic of the anthropological perspective that requires anthropologists to place their observations about human nature, human society, or the human past in a temporal framework that takes into consideration change over time. |
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| sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquires as members of society, Human beings used culture to adapt to and to transform the world in which they live. |
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| Organisms (in this case, human beings) whose defining features are codetermined by biological and cultural factors. |
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| Social groupings that allegedly reflect biological differences. |
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| The systematic oppression of one or more socially defined "races" by another socially defined "race" that is justified in terms of the supposed inherent biological superiority of the rulers and the supposed inherent biological inferiority of those that they rule. |
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| Biological (or Physical)Anthropology |
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| The specialty of anthropology that looks at human beings as biological organisms and tries to discover what characteristics make them different from other organisms and what characteristics they share. |
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| The study of nonhuman primates, the closest living relatives to human beings |
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| the search for fossilized remains of humanity's earliest ancestors. |
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| the specialty of anthropology that shows how variation in the beliefs and behaviors of members of different human groups is shaped by sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society - that is, by culture. |
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| An extended period of close involvement with the people in whose language or way of life anthropologists are interested, during which anthropologists ordinarily collect most of their data. |
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| people in a particular culture who work with anthropologists and proved them with insights about their way of life. Also called respondents, teachers, or friends. |
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| An anthropologist's written or filmed description of a particular culture. |
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| the comparative study of two or more cultures. |
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| the system of arbitrary vocal symbols used to encode one's experience of the world and of others. |
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| the specialty of anthropology concerned with the study of human languages. |
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| A cultural anthropology of the human past involving the analysis of material remains left behind by earlier societies. |
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| Specialists who use information gathered from the other anthropological specialties to solve practical cross-cultural problems |
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| the specialty of anthropology that concerns itself with human health - the factors that contribute to disease or illness and the ways that human populations deal with disease or illness. |
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| Anthropological perspective is: |
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- Holistic
- Comparative
- Evolutionary |
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| Anthropology relies on the concept of ____________ to explain the diversity of human ways of life. |
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| There are 5 major subfields of anthropology: |
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- Biological anthropology
- Archaeology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Linguistics
- Applied Anthropology |
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