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| The study of humanity, including pre-historic origins and contemporary human diversity. |
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| Biological (physical) anthropology |
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| The study of humans as biological organisms, including evolution and contemporary variation. |
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| The study of pas human cultures through their material remains. |
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| The study of human communication, including its origins, history, and contemporary variation and change. |
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| The study of living peoples and their cultures, including variation and change. |
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| Refers to people's learned and shared behaviors and beliefs. |
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| The use of anthropological knowledge to prevent or solve problems or to shape and achieve policy goals. |
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| The study of the nonhuman members of the order of mammals called primates. |
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| The study of human evolution on the basis of the fossil record. |
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| Contemporary human biological variation |
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| Define, measure, and seek to explain differences in the biological makeup and behavior of contemporary humans. |
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| Concerns the human past before written records. |
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| Deals with the human past in societies that have written documents. |
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| The study of submerged archeological sites. |
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| The study of language change over time and how languages are related |
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| Descriptive (structural) linguistics |
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| The study of how contemporary languages differ in terms of their formal structure |
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| He study of relationships among social variation, social context, and linguistic variation, including nonverbal communication. |
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| People's learned and shared beliefs |
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| The view that a culture is similar to a biological organism, in which the parts work to support the operation and maintenance of the whole. |
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| The view that one must study all aspects of a culture in order to understand it. |
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| The view that each culture must be understood in terms of the values and ideas of that culture and not be judge by the standards of another. |
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| A theory that takes material features of life, such as the environment, natural resources, and mode of livelihood, as the bases for explaining social organization and ideology. |
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| Interpretive anthropology |
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| The view that cultures are best understood by studying what people think about, their ideas, and the meanings that are important to them. |
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| A theoretical position concerning human behavior and ideas that says large forces such as the economy, social and political organization, and the media shape what people do and think. |
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| The ability of humans to make choices and exercise free will even within dominating structures. |
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| A distinction patter of learned and shared behavior and thinking found within a larger culture. |
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| An object, word, or action with culturally defined meaning that stands for something else; most symbols are arbitrary. |
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| Increased and intensified international ties related to the spread of Western, especially U.S., capitalism that affect all world cultures. |
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| The transformation of global culture by local cultures into something new. |
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| A way of categorized people on the basis of their economic position in society, usually measured in terms of income or wealth. |
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| A classification of people into groups on the basis of supposedly homogeneous and biological traits such as skin color or hair characteristics. |
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| A shared sense of identity among members of a group based on heritage, language, or culture. |
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| Groups of people who have a long sanding connection with their home territories that predates colonial or outside societies. |
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| Culturally constructed and learned behaviors and ideas attributed to males, females, or blended genders. |
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| Judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture rather than by the standards of that particular culture. |
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| A theory that explain human behavior and ideas as shaped mainly by biological features such as genes and hormones. |
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| A theory that explains human behavior and ideas as shaped mainly by learning. |
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