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| the study of human kind in all times and places |
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| a fundamental priciple of anthropology that the various parts of huan 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 th 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 anthroplogy. the ustematic study of humans as biological organisms. |
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| a branch of biological anthropology that uses genetic and 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-producting and culture-reproducing creatures |
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| a society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and preceptions, which are used to make sense of experiences an which generate behavior and are refelcted in that behavior. |
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| a detailed descreiption of a particular culture primariely based on fieldwork |
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| the term antrhopologists 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 theoriesthat 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 meterial 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 or development |
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| the study of human languages, looking at their structure, history, and 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, finacnce capital, information, and infectious diseases |
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| the process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society |
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| an organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, languate and culture and who act together for collective survival and well-being |
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| the cultural elaborations and meanings assigned to the biological differentiation between the sexes |
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| a distinctive set of standards and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards with that larger society |
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| people who collectively and piblicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on various cultural features such as shared ancestry and common origin, language, customs and traditional beliefs |
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| a sign, sound, emblem, or other thing that is arbitrarily linked to something else and represents it in a meaningful way |
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| the rule-goverened relationships with all their rights and obligations that hold members of a society together. this includes households, families, associations, and power relations, including politics |
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| theeconomic foundation of a society, including its subsistence practices and the tools and other material equiptment used to make a living |
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| a society' shared sense of identity and world view. the collective body of ideas, belies, and values by which a group of people maes sense of the world, its shape, chllenges and opportunities and their place in it. this includes religion and national ideology |
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| the belief that the ways of ones own culture are the only proper ones. |
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| the idea that one must suspend judgement of other people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms |
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| thenographic research that documents endangered cultures also known as salvage ethnography |
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| research that is community based and politically involved |
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| the investigation and documentation of peoples and cultures embedded in the larger structures of a globalizing world, utilizing a range of methods in various locations of time and space |
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| extended on location research to gather detailed and indepth information on a society's customary ideas values and practices through participation in ties collective social life |
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| a member oh the society being studied, who provided information that helps researchers understand the meaning of what they observe, early anthropologists referred to such individuals as informants |
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