Humanity

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Biological (physical) anthropology

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Major sub field of anthropology that studies the biological dimensions of humans and other primates

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Anthropology

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Academic discipline that studies humanity from a broad biological and cultural perspective

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Primatology

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Part of biological anthropology that studies primates, including monkeys and apes

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Human variation

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Physical differences among human populations; an interest of physical anthropologists

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Paleoanthropology

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Specialization within biological anthropology that investigates the biological evolution of the human species

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Forensic anthropology

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Specialization within physical anthropology that analyzes and identifies human remains

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Archaeology

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Investigation of past cultures through the excavation of material remains

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Prehistoric archaeology

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Field that uses excavations and analysis of material remains to investigate cultures that existed before the development of writing.

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Historic archaeology

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Field that investigates the past of literate peoples through excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts and other material remains

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Culture anthropology

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Subfield that studies the way of life contemporary and historically recent peoples

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Fieldwork

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Ethnographic research that involves observing and interviewing a community in order to document and describe their way of life

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Ethnography

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Written description of the way of life of some human population

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Anthropological linguistics

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Subfield that focuses on the interrelationships between language and other aspects of a peoples culture

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Applied anthropology

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Subfield whose practitioners use anthropological methods, theories, and concepts to solve practical, real-world problems; practitioners are often employed by a governmental agency or private organization

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Medical anthropology

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Specialization that researches the connections between cultural beliefs and habits and the spread and treatment of diseases and illnesses

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Holistic perspective

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Assumption that any aspect of a culture is inter grated with other aspects, so that no dimension of culture can be understood in isolation

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Comparative perspective

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Insistence by anthropologists that valid hypotheses and theories about humanity be tested with information from a wide range of cultures

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Cultural relativism

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Notion that one should not judge the behavior of other peoples using the standards of ones own culture

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Ethnocentrism

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Attitude or opinion that the morals, values, and customs of ones own culture are superior to those of other peoples