Ch. 1 - What is Anthropology?

Question 1

Study of humans around the world and through time

Answer 1

Anthropology

Question 2

Encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture

Answer 2

Holistic

Question 3

Traditions and customs transmitted through learning

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Culture

Question 4

Combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem

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Biocultural

Question 5

Economy based on plant cultivation and/or

animal domestication

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Food production

Question 6

Anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology

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General anthropology

Question 7

Study of sociocultural differences and similarities

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Ethnology

Question 8

Comparative, cross-cultural study of human society and culture

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Cultural anthropology

Question 9

Fieldwork in a particular cultural setting

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Ethnography

Question 10

Study of human behavior through material remains

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Anthropological archaeology

Question 11

Study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space, and society

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Linguistic anthropology

Question 12

Study of language in society

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Sociolinguistics

Question 13

Use of anthropology to solve contemporary problems

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Applied anthropology

Question 14

Deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved

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Cultural resource management

Question 15

Field of study that seeks reliable explanations, with reference to the material and physical world

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Science

Question 16

Suggested but as yet unverified explanation

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Hypothesis

Question 17

Observed relationship between two or more variables

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Association

Question 18

Set of ideas formulated to explain something

Answer 18

Theory