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anthropology - Answer-the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time. What makes people different and what they have in common Applied Anthropology - Answer-anthropological research commissioned to serve an organization's needs Archeology - Answer-studies past human cultures often excavat...

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anthropology - Answer-the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time. What
makes people different and what they have in common

Applied Anthropology - Answer-anthropological research commissioned to serve an
organization's needs

Archeology - Answer-studies past human cultures often excavation

Biological Anthropology - Answer-focuses on the biological aspects of humans

Colonialism - Answer-historical practice of more powerful countries claiming possession
of less powerful ones

comparative method - Answer-allows anthropologists to derive insights from careful
comparisons of culture or societies

Cultural Anthropology - Answer-studies the social lives of modern communities

culture relativism - Answer-the moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold
judgement about. seemingly storage practice or belief

culture - Answer-those taken-for-granted notions, rules, moralities, and behaviors within
a social group that feel "natural"

diversity - Answer-the sheer variety of ways of being human around the world. Refers to
the multiplicity and variety, which is not the same as difference.

Empirical - Answer-based on observation or experiment

ethics - Answer-anthropologists are obligated to the people they study, the professional
community, and those who fund the study

Ethnocentrism - Answer-the belief that one's own culture is superior or correct and that
all other cultures are ignorant or wrong

ethnographic method - Answer-prolonged and intensive observation of participation in
the life of a community

evolution - Answer-natural selection challenged beliefs of Darwin's society
unilineal cultural evolution: idea that human societies could be ranked along a single
ladder of progress

, holism - Answer-The anthropological commitment to consider the full scope of human
life, including culture, biology, history, and language, across space and time.

Industrialization - Answer-disrupted american and european societies by bringing large
numbers of rural people into towns and cities to work in factories

Lingustic Anthropology - Answer-studies how people communicate through language.
How they use language to order their natural and cultural environments

Othering - Answer-the act of differentiating between individuals and groups such that
distinctions are made between "me" and "you" and between "us" and "them"

Practicing Anthropology - Answer-anthropological work involving research as well as
involvement in the design, implementation, and management of some organization,
process, or product

Qualitative method - Answer-aim to produce in-depth and detailed description of social
behaviors behaviors and beliefs

quantitative method - Answer-Study through statistical data from many cases

Salvage Paradigm - Answer-to observe indigenous ways of life before traditional
languages and customs disappeared til 1920a

scientific method - Answer-develop, test, and disprove hypotheses.
In science, theories are tested and repeatedly-supported hypothesis, not "guesses"

theory - Answer-A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data

How did anthropology begin? - Answer-Industrialization, Evolution, and colonialism
(salvage paradigm)

what do the four subfields of anthropology have in common? - Answer-They all study
the way people lived or how they live. Both focused on the study of human culture and
evolution using different methods

how do anthropologists know what they know? - Answer-scientific method

how do anthropologists put their knowledge to work in the world? - Answer-

What ethical obligations do anthropologists have? - Answer-moral questions about right
and wrong and standards of appropriate behavior
- obligated to the people they study, the professional community, and those who fund
the study.

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