Ethnography - A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork.
Ethnology - Study & Analysis of different cultures from a comparative/historical point of
view that help explain why certain important differences or similarities occur among
groups.
Anthropology - It is the study of all aspects of human kind, biological, cultural, and
linguistic, past and present, throughout the world, using a holistic approach.
Cultural Anthropology - Also known as social or sociocultural anthropology. The study of
customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings. It focuses on humans as
culture-producing and culture-reproducing creatures.
Culture - Way of life, society shared & socially transmitted ideas, values, emotions and
perceptions
Holistic Perspective - Various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the
broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and
interdependence.
Ethnocentrism - A cultural attitude marked by the tendency to regard one's own culture
as superior to others.
Fieldwork - Ethnographic research that involves observing and interviewing the
members of a culture to describe their way of life
Linguistic Anthropology - Study of human languages- looking at their structure, history,
and relation to social and cultural contexts.
race - In biology, the taxonomic category of subspecies that is not applicable to humans
because the division of humans into discrete types does not represent the true nature of
human biological variation.
Bio-Archaeology - the archaeological study of human remains, emphasizing the
preservation of cultural and social processes in the skeleton
Historical Archaeology - a subfield of archaeology that studies the remains of cultures
that existed during the time of written records but about which little was recorded
Contemporary Archaeology - archaeologists that study in contemporary settings on the
human antiquity & some prefer to focus on modern societies and cultures.
, Cultural Resource Management - 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
Physical Anthropology - Also known as biological anthropology. The systematic study of
humans as biological organisms.
Molecular Anthropology - study of genes and genetic relationships
PaleoAnthropology - study of biological changes through time (evolution) to understand
the origins and predecessors of the present human species.
Primatology - The study of living and fossil primates
Human Growth - Biological mechanisms of growth, impact of the environment on growth
process.
Human Adaptation - capacity of humans to adapt to their material environment-
biologically & culturally.
Forensic Anthropology - Field of applied physical anthropology that specializes in the
identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes
Culture Shock - A condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly
exposed to an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes
Enculturation - Through________, a society's culture is passed on from one generation
to the next and individuals become members of their society. Humans learn socially
appropriate ways of satisfying the basic biologically determined needs of all humans.
Society - An organized group of people who share a territory, language, and culture.
symbols - A sound, gesture, mark or other sign that is arbitrarily linked to something
else and represents it in a meaningful way.
Applied Anthropology - The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve
practical problems, often for a specific client.
Laura Nader - Playing a leading role in the development of the anthropology of law,
_____ has taken on specialists in the fields of law, children's issues, nuclear energy,
and science, critically questioning the basic assumptions under which these experts
operate
Participant Observation - In ethnography, the technique of learning a people's culture
through social participation and personal observation within the community being
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