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| The study of the cultural and biological variations among human groups |
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| The use of anthropological knowledge to solve practical problems outside the academy |
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| The elaboration of an act or a thing beyond the strictly utilitarian demands |
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| The branch of anthropology that investigates people of the past |
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| Generally anything made by people |
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| That branch of anthropology which focuses on the human body |
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| The illusion that humans can be subdivided into discrete races on the basis of physical attributes |
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| Comparison of traits between different cultures |
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| The study of the cultures of living peoples |
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| The principles that each culture has its own moral integrity and should not be judged by the standards of other cultures |
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| Basic organizing priniciples evedent in variuos culture practices |
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| The cultural ideas that people have in thier minds about how humans are divided into significant and discrete groups |
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| Words that can be used to describe behavior in another culture without carrying to many of the meanings over from the first language |
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| Words in one language referring to concepts that are so particular to that culture that they cannot be usefully translated |
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| The detailed anaysis of how people actually speak with each other |
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| See Conversation Analysis |
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| Cultuarl norms about how emotions should be shown or not shown |
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| Ideas, categories, and explinations of the people themselves |
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| A hand gesture that has a specific meaning |
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| Certain breif responses to an event |
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| Learning of cultural patterns during childhood |
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| Situation where one's own personal interests conflict with the broader professional standards |
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| A person's cultural identity |
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| The attempt to understand the meanings of the artifacts that they excavate by studying the way contemporary peoples produce and use similar artifacts |
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| The use of one;s own cultural values, models, and categories to understand and judge nes culture |
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| Describing a culture as it was before some particular outside intrusion began to modernize it |
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| The branch of anthropology which studies particular cultures |
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| The anthropological compaisons of culture |
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| Cultural schemas about psychology that are held by a people |
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| The use of culture-neutral terms and categories to describe a culture |
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| reaserch, usually involving living in the midst of a social group |
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| When a researcher slips from being a researcher of a culture and becomes an individual in the new culture that was being studied |
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| The principle that a person's primary identity is as the memeber of a social network, instead of as an individual |
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| The study of how the body is used in communication |
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| The culture-specific schemes, theories,explinations, and unerstanding of mental processes held by the people |
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| Emphasis on a person as independent |
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| A complex bundle of skills and abilities |
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| The branch of anthropology which particularly concerned with language |
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| The artifacts and other objects made and used by people in accord with thier cultural schemas |
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| Like a word or a suffix, a group of phonemes that conveys meaning |
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| The idea that the intelligence of any one person can be considered as made up of several different factors |
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| The ethnocentric process of demonizing people of other cultures |
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| The barnch of anthropology which studies fossil remains |
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| The study of the past through examination of fossil remains |
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| Those channels of communication that are used along with language features in the narrow sense |
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| A research method that takes fieldwork a step further and actually joining in the life and work of the people |
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| The sound that makes a difference in the meaning of a word |
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| The study of the sound system of a language |
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| Someone who studies nonhuman primates |
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| Psychological Anthropology |
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| That branch of anthropology which focuses on cognition, perception,and emotion |
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| A group of people with the same physical attributes |
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| The relation of trust and friendship that anthropologists try to develop with the people they are studying |
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| Acknowledgeing the presence of the researcher and attempting to evaluate the effect of such intrusion |
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| Branch of Cultural Anthropology, focuses more on kinship and political relationships |
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| The incorporation of traits from another culture into a pattern of a culture |
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| Theory based on that the features of a language shape the way in wich its speakers percive and act in the world |
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| The study of how a language is actually used in interactive social settings |
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| A name for one of the oldest and most widespread symbols |
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