ANTHROPOLOGICAL

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Systematic study of humanity, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins, our distinctiveness as a species, and the great diversity in our forms of social existence across the world and through time.

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Anthropology

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Sub-disciplines of Anthropology

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1. Cultural Anthropology
2. Archaeological Anthropology
3. Biological Anthropology
4. Linguistic Anthropology

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Study how people who share a common cultural system organize and shape the physical and social world around them, and are in turn shaped by those ideas, behaviors, and physical environments.

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Cultural anthropology

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It requires field work to collect data after descriptive and specific to a group.

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Ethnography

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The comparative study of two or more cultures. It utilizes the data taken from ethnographic research and applies it to a single cross cultural topic.

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Ethnology

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The study of cultures that lived in the past. It’s a sub field of anthropology, the study of human cultures.

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Archaeological anthropology

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Also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestord, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective.

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Biological anthropology

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Is a branch of anthropology that studies the role of language in the social lives of individuals and communities.

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Linguistic anthropology

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Is the process by which a person adopts the behavior patterns of the culture.

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Enculturation

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The process by which an individual or group adopts the practices and values of one culture , while still retaining their own culture of religion.

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Acculturation

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Typically used in reference to a minority culture adopting elements of a majority culture.

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Acculturation

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This is also a two-way process since the majority culture also adopts elements of the minority culture(s).

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Acculturation

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Influences our beliefs about what is true and false, our attitudes including our likes and dislikes, our values regarding what is right and wrong, and our behaviors.

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Culture

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“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”

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Anthropologist Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)

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What is the purpose of anthropology according to Anthropologist Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)?

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To make the world safe for human differences.