Chapter 1: The Essence Of Anthropology

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Culture-bound

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A perspective that produces theories about the world and reality that are based on the assumptions and values from the researcher’s own culture.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that the ways of one’s own culture are the only proper ones.

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Applied Anthropology

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The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client

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Cultural Anthropology

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Branch of anthropology that studies the patterns in human behavior, thought, and emotions, focusing on humans as culture-producing and culture-reproducing creatures. Also known as social or sociocultural anthropology.

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Culture

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A society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior.

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Ethnography

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A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork.

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Participant Observation

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In ethnography, the technique of learning a people’s culture through social participation and personal observation within the community being studied, as well as interviews and discussions with individual members of the group over an extended period of time

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Linguistic Anthropology

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Branch of anthropology that studies human languages, by looking at their structure, history and relation to social and cultural contexts.

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Archaeology

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Branch of anthropology that studies human cultures through the recover and analysis of material remains and environmental data.

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Paleoanthropology

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Branch of anthropology that studies the origins, predecessors and early representatives of the present human species, focusing on the biological changes (evolution) through time.

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Primatology

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A vital part of physical anthropology; the study of living and fossil primates.

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Frank Boas

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German anthropologist (1858-1942) who introduced anthropology courses in college and university curricula within the U.S., where he took part in ethnographic research of the Kwakiutl Indians in the Canadian Pacific. He promoted anthropology not only as a human science, but as an instrument to combat racism and prejudice in the world.

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Biological Anthropology

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(Bioarchaeology) the study of human remains - bones, teeth, skulls, and sometimes hair, dried skin or other tissue - to determine the influences of culture and environment on human biological variation.

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Scientific theory

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A coherent statement that provides an explanatory framework for understanding; an explanation or interpretation supported by a reliable body if data.

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Globalization

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Worldwide interconnectedness, evidenced in rapid global movement of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases.