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What is anthropology? - Answer-The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another. Through what lenses do anthropologists gain a comprehensive view of human cultures? - Answ...

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What is anthropology? - Answer-The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and
present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds
better understand one another.

Through what lenses do anthropologists gain a comprehensive view of human cultures?
- Answer-Four field-approach and Holism

What is globalization, and why is it important for anthropology? - Answer-The worldwide
intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and
ideas within and across national borders.
Intertwined with history and the contemporary world, also transforming the ways
anthropologists conduct research and communicate their findings.

How is globalization transforming anthropology? - Answer-Changing communities and
changing research strategies.

Define Ethnocentrism? - Answer-The belief that one culture or way of life is normal and
natural; using one's own culture to evaluate and judge the practices and ideals of
others.

Define Ethnographic Fieldwork? - Answer-A primary research strategy in cultural
anthropology typically involving living and interacting with a community of people over
an extended period to better understand their lives.

Define four-field approach? - Answer-The use of four interrelated disciplines to study
humanity: physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and
archaeology.

Define holism? - Answer-The anthropological commitment to look at the whole picture of
human life-- culture, biology, history, and language-- across space and time.

Define physical anthropology? - Answer-The study of humans from a biological
perspective, particularly how they have evolved over time and adapted to their
environments.

Define paleoanthropology? - Answer-The study of the history of human evolution
through the fossil record.

Define primatology? - Answer-The study of living nonhuman primates as well as primate
fossils to better understand human evolution and early human behavior.

, Define archaeology? - Answer-The investigation of the human past by means of
excavating and analyzing artifacts.

Define prehistoric archaeology? - Answer-The reconstruction of human behavior in the
distant past (before written records) through the examination of artifacts.

Define historic archaeology? - Answer-The exploration of the more recent past through
an examination of physical remains and artifacts as well as written or oral records.

Define linguistic anthropology? - Answer-The study of human language in the past and
the present.

Define descriptive linguists? - Answer-Those who can analyze languages and their
component parts.

Define historic linguists? - Answer-Those who study how language changes over time
within a culture and how languages travel across cultures.

Define sociolinguists? - Answer-Those who study language in its social and cultural
contexts.

Define cultural anthropology? - Answer-The study of people's communities, behaviors,
beliefs, and institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, work, and
play together.

Define participant observation? - Answer-A key anthropological research strategy
involving both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being
studied.

Define time-space compression? - Answer-The rapid innovation of communication and
transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people
think about space (distances) and time.

Define flexible accumulation? - Answer-The increasingly flexible strategies that
corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative
communication and transportation technologies.

Define increasing migration? - Answer-The accelerated movement of people within and
between countries.

Define uneven development? - Answer-The unequal distribution of the benefits of
globalization.

Define anthropocene? - Answer-The current historical era in which human activity is
reshaping the planet in permanent ways.

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